squaresinger,

You are using reductio ad absurdum wrong. It is used as a proof by contradiction, which is not what you are doing.

Instead you are using it to construct a huge strawman agument.

This is like if you say “Keeping posts short is good” and I say “The shortest possible post has 0 characters and that’s not a good post, so short posts are bad”. Which could incidentally also be used for the exact opposite (“Explaining your arguments thorougly in a post is good” -> “The most thorough explanation possible has infinite characters, so explaining arguments is bad”).

Because in general, every single thing that is overexagerated is bad. There is not a single thing that, if pushed to absurd limits, is good.

You could have just said “I disagree, I don’t think it would be a good idea because, …”.

Instead you used polemics and a logical fallacy.

You appear to know your logical fallacies. They are guidelines how not to argue, not guidelines to follow.

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