And my experience is very clear that someone arguing for a case by bringing up a slightly different hypothetical one is usually trying to pull a fast one on you. The trick even has a name in rhetorics, but I'm too tired to remember and too lazy to look it up right now.
A straw man?
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“it was never wise for a ruler to eschew the trappings of power, for power itself flows in no small measure from such trappings.”
- George R.R. Martin ; Melisandre
