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In reply to the discussion: Clintonians Join Vulture Flock Over Argentina [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)As far as pounding the table, labeling a straw man for what it is is not pounding a table. Also, look in the mirror.
Your opening argument was about fairness, not about what the law stated.
You've been using your law degree to use the logical fallacy of appeal to authority, and to snark at and condescend to those who disagree with you. However, that is misplaced. Not a single poster argued with you about your statement as to applicable law and no poster exhibited any ignorance of what applicable law stated or any need to be schooled on that point anyway.
On the issue of fairness, which you raised, you never made your case. As to fairness, the facts of the Singer case are not with you and existing law is not a determinant of fairness.
So, again, your calling out a poster on the ground that how the law works is not a matter of opinion when no one claimed it was a matter of opinion is a straw man. A straw man who may have been to make your law degree more relevant to this thread than it actually is.