Cordato’s Law: Using reductio ad absurdum argument against leftists tends to fail. Leftists are not only quicker than you to conceive absurd ends, but also they probably have already reached or surpassed them, rendering your argument moot.
A typical use for reduction ad absurdum argument is to defeat an idea by taking its concepts to their logical extremes (also known as the slippery-slope argument) to reveal their folly against a starker backdrop. E.g., a typical argument against gun control: Wull, why not knife control, too?
So here’s this BBC News dispatch from Gun-Control Island:
A&E doctors are calling for a ban on long pointed kitchen knives to reduce deaths from stabbing. …
