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In reply to the discussion: In Gorilla's Death, Critics Blame Mother, Cincinnati Zoo [View all]Stargleamer
(1,992 posts)that there are more options than that but you just present the two as if that's all there is. There is no real hypothetical when the hypothetical obviously doesn't exist and any reasonably knowledgeable person knows that the hypothetical doesn't exist. Putting an "if" in front of it doesn't get you off the hook, since it doesn't change the unreality of that hypothetical.
If we're driving on a wet and slippery road, and you're at the wheel, and there are plastic bottles lying in the road, and in order to avoid hitting them you tell me well if I go to the right we'll fall off a cliff and if I go to the left we'll crash into the wall, well, I'd rather crash into the wall, I'd tell you, If I could get the words out of mouth in time " those aren't the only 2 choices! Go straight!!" Putting an "if" in front doesn't change the false dilemma/dichotomy of it all.
But if for pedantry's sake, if you wish me to classify my objection to what you wrote as a "stupid, meaningless, pointless hypothetical" rather than a "false dichotomy", well I'm cool with that.