"I’m not anti-gun, I’m pro-kindergartner"

[Scootaloo]

28. Ah yes. The mr. Spock argument

Which states that any amount of emotion is a negative, and has no place anywhere. Only pure, undiluted "rationality" is acceptable to the Spock-er. The Spock-er ignores that McCoy was right more often than Spock except when Spock "let his human side" get the better of him"; the pair's interaction was specifically written to show the value and rightness of human (and humane) emotion over cold "logic." Which is a false dilemma anyway; emotion and reason are actually not in any conflict. Well, not in humans. Or Romulans. or even Klingons, Cardassians, Ferengi, or whatever those dudes with the hair from Voyager were called

It's a common argument made by libertarians and other far-right fuckheads who are shitting-their-pants scared, and whose own arguments don't really have any rational basis other than that fear. Apparently Progressives-with-asterisks are no less prone to it.