Its also similar to the logical error of "The Straw Man." You take the most extreme misapplication of your opponent's view and attack it successfully [because it's so extreme as to be perposterous] then claim that the reasonable/mild applications of his logic, by extension, are also invalidated.
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Originally posted by gothweb
I like the way you cleverly use contrived examples. In my field, we call that "lack of charity" towards the opposing view. We also call it sophistry.
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