Appeal to the Stone
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Description
Dismissing a claim as absurd without demonstrating any proof for its absurdity.
Example
The idea of the government providing health care to the population is insane, and should not even be considered in a serious debate.
Famous Examples
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I'm sorry I'm not a classic maternal archetype. I don't know what to do when you people come to me with your weird puberty issues.
Context: Rick and Morty season 3, episode 5 - The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy -
I don't even know what to say I mean he's doing the Harlem Shake. It's 2017 this is an appointed official of a regulatory board doing the Harlem Shake with a light saber and it's 2017 and I don't know...how do I approach this thing? I have nothing.
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Richard [Carrier] takes the extremist position that Jesus of Nazareth never even existed, that there was no such person in history. This is a position that is so extreme that to call it marginal would be an understatement; it doesn't even appear on the map of contemporary New Testament scholarship.
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