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Re:We Need a New Science of Progress by setr on Friday August 02, 2019 @12:26PM (#20594260)
Its just an efficient one.

By pulling to the extreme, you can remove a lot of the smaller and subtler points of the argument, to get pointedly at a core issue.

Unless of course the recipient tries to (re-)introduce irrelevant aspects of the fact that you tried to be pointed...

Re:We Need a New Science of Progress by ziddoap on Friday August 02, 2019 @12:28PM (#20594278)
I haven't heard of an established logical fallacy being an efficient argument but, sure.