There's another descriptor for the kind of questions that are used to bloviate with and manipulate people with by covertly disconnecting any link between your rhetoric and actual things. They are called "semantically null" or "meaningless". There are a lot of threads in our history in which long discussions have been had on such questions. Another example is trying to make "facts" out of opinions and then acting like you are having a serious presentation of facts. They aren't exactly semantically null, but building rhetoric on them can make a huge cloud of stink from a tiny opinionated whiff. Cf. Rush Limbaugh.


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