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[SlimKlim]

Hyperbole, sarcasm, and outright dismissal weakens your position significantly,  Gerald.

You're better than that.

Isn't that all Rex does or am i interpreting wrong?

There is a big difference between advocating your beliefs... and I think Rex honestly believes what he's saying... and purposefully misconstruing someone else's beliefs into a theoretical dystopia to make it easier to attack.

Terms like "absurd position" and "la la land" are dismissive, at best. It shows you aren't actually open to considering the position and is a common tactic used (mostly by extremes on left AND right) to shout down ideas different than theirs.

You can't accuse G of using hyperbole and defend Rex's use of it on the other side of the same argument. Either he's actually arguing that taxes are fundamentally immoral and shouldn't exist, or he's making a hyperbolic statement and going for shock factor when he says "taxation is theft." 

It doesn't matter if he believes his argument, i can believe the sky is red as much as I want and it won't do dickshit to change the definition of the color blue.