Immediately students look relieved, and sometimes even applaud. I then say, “And because I’m pro-choice, I believe every man has the right to rape a woman if that’s his choice. After all, it’s his body, and we don’t have the right to tell him what he can and can’t do with it.” In the following seconds, after the shock settles in, I ask them to tell me the fallacy of my argument (which of course I knew well, which is why I am adamantly opposed to what I actually said!). They point out that in asserting
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