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On 3/23/2024 3:16 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 20:26:58 +0000, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mar 22, 2024 at 4:08:21 AM PDT, "FPP" <fredp1571@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> No, I don't. Every time you bring that up, I ask you whether you think that
>> it'd be okay for the government to make exceptions to Amendment XIX and
>> prohibit women from voting since "no amendment is sacrosanct", after all. Or
>> since "no amendment is sacrosanct", it'd be okay for the government to
>> prohibit black people from voting (Amendment XV) and allow people to be owned
>> as slaves (Amendment XIII).
>>
>> And that's when *you* go into a coma.
>>
> In other words the "reductio ad absurdem" argument where one defeats
> an argument by showing where the logical extension from it leads to an
> absurdity.

"SOME amendments are sacrosanct", a theologism, is what's absurd here.