Freemen and False Moral Equivalence

[arayder]

Freemen and their gurus so often try to draw false comparisons between two phenomena which are not morally equivalent. Freemen and their gurus use the fallacy of moral equivalence to denigrate judges, cops and courts by claiming that society laws are akin to a reprehensible practice.

Using this cheap debate trick one might decry the temporary detention of asylum seekers by claiming that refugee facilities are nothing more than concentration camps and like concentration camps used by the Nazis are designed to break the will of the inmates while planning their eventual murders.

This sweeping claim of aggregate moral equivalence is a mere rhetorical device employing the fallacy of false analogy.

Likewise, freemen gurus tell us that when police ask individuals questions it is unwanted “intercourse” akin to rape.

When a judge demands that a freeman remove his hat in court, freeman polemists tell us the demand is akin to requiring them to disrobe.

Routine traffic stops are cast as unlawful imprisonments.

This high school debate trick has become so popular in the subculture that freemen video their traffic stops and claim they are being menaced, even assaulted when the police try to shout to them through rolled up car windows. Likewise, videos of freemen being told to leave their video cameras outside a court room are said to be documentation of outright theft by the courts.

Those of you who frequent this forum are well familiar with the freeman guru’s “whataboutism” debate tricks and can probably cite several more examples.