The questions leaked to the the Times betoken a very wide quest, indeed, stopping just short of the proverbial, «When did
you stop beating your wife?»
Have
you stopped beating your wife?»
Calvinistic Pastor Kevin DeYoung wrote a post that went viral which used the «When did
you stop beating your wife?»
Also like have
you stop beating your wife.
She trots out a loaded question just like the classic «have
you stopped beating your wife?»
He asks «have
you stopped beating your wife yet?»
SM: I guess that is kind of like asking, «When did
you stop beating your wife?»
But because it is a «when did
you stop beating your wife» article.
The commenter's demand for «balance» is actually a complex question fallacy, much like «have
you stopped beating your wife?»
Having now seen the «Have
you stopped beating your wife» questions, I suppose had I seen them in 2010 I probably would have chuckled at the stupidity and clicked to something else.
Your «have
you stopped beating your wife» questions are certainly below me to answer, and do make me think very little of you.
I feel like the politician who was asked when he had
stopped beating his wife.
I would even say that it is an argument that is perilously close to an argumentum ad ignorantiam (a deprecating assertion for which no evidence is offered, e.g., «When did
you stop beating your wife?»)
The specific example would be of the form «when did
you stop beating your wife?»