A Bad Idea Delivered With a Slick Presentation is Still Bad

A response to Zach Wahls' fallacious appeal in Iowa...


A comment was left in response to the video:

You bigot!

Why won't you support legitimizing my particular eating fetish by redefining food to include cinder blocks?

People think I'm weird for what I eat, because they don't consider cinder blocks to be legitimate food.

By law, cinder blocks cannot be labelled as food. This is codified discrimination against those of us who like to eat cinder blocks! If the law included cinder blocks as food, then people would have to accept that me eating cinder blocks is exactly the same as them eating other kinds of food. But as it stands, I am being denied my basic civil right to call what I love to eat, "food" and have the state sanction it as such. Where is the equal protection under the law?

How does me eating cinder blocks affect you and your eating preferences? Why should it matter to you whether or not the definition of food includes cinder blocks? Nobody is going to force YOU to eat cinder blocks.

Why should the law stigmatize me and others like me because it doesn't include what we love to eat into the category of food? I demand the laws be changed so that food includes cinder blocks!

Look, I have a good job, I'm articulate and intelligent and I'm a productive member of society. I turned out pretty good, didn't I? Therefore, my particular eating fetish should be legitimized by redefining food to include cinder blocks, because it obviously hasn't hurt me!