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My statement above was intended as a reducio ad absurdum.

Matthew Yglesias » Density and Building Height 2010

Palladian takes a break from gargling the salami of some homeless guy he slipped a 20 to to engage in a little gratuitous reducio ad Hitlerum.

"When a family is burning to death in front of your eyes, rules should go out of the window – especially with kids. Everybody wanted to try and help." Ann Althouse 2009

Equivalation is an easy trap to fall into, the most notorious example being the reducio ad hitlerem, whereby someone is claimed to be as bad as Hitler, by noting all the similarities, except, of course, the part about rounding up millions of people and feeding them gas chambers.

Equivalation James Killus 2008

Or weight? and we continue our reducio to the point where only a Duke professor could understand himself.

"We think the ad's authors were right to give voice to the students quoted, whose suffering is real." Ann Althouse 2007

Why must every thread here fight reducio ad absurdum, usually along ideological lines?

Chinese Fatigue Regulations 2005

It would be refreshing to see a thoughtful discussion about social responsibility of game developers that did not immediately degrade to reducio ad absurdum and name-calling.

Game Politics 2005

Therefore we must condemn the Catholic church for being an organization devoted to pedophlic Nazi-ism, the reducio ad absurdum of your argument.

Expecting Rain 2010