[john-radio]

> But maybe it is better to try to agree on what is really going on in real discussions, rather than hypotheticals about candies.

I don't think this is going to blow your mind or anything, but the candy discussion in this essay wasn't actually hypothetical at all. The tic tacs are fetuses and the "fascists" are forced birther conservatives. You might disagree that it's reasonable to call a forced birther a fascist - to call them that certainly seems a bit imprecise to me - but I'm not sure what you're driving at beyond that (valid) semantic point. Begging what question?

[projektfu]

I have never heard of a fetus being called a tic-tac, but maybe that is the slang in your area.