Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Woman Shot By Oven

She didn't know a friend stored his ammo there.

Will liberals call for oven control?  Or perhaps demand that ovens come with warning labels: Do not store ammunition in ovens! Or perhaps: Remove all ammo, fuels, cats and babies before preheating!

Is there anything so stupid that some liberal won't jump to embrace it? 

That last sentence is an example of a rhetorical question, which I define as follows.  A rhetorical question is an interrogative form of words utterance of which is used to make a statement or issue a command.  For example, suppose you are the father of a teenage daughter.  It gets back to you that she was texting while driving.  You utter this grammatically interrogative sentence: 'Do you have to text while you drive?' You are not, logically, asking a question or making a statement.  You are, logically, issuing a command: Do not text while driving!  Depending on the proclivities of the lass you might add: And do not 'sext' while driving!

'Is there anything so stupid that some liberal won't jump to embrace it?' is grammatically interrogative but logically declarative.


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