# Bricker's betting gambit **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 4, 2013, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brickers-betting-gambit/667992 "2013-09-04T13:41:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 97
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brickers-betting-gambit/667992/97 "2013-09-05T03:16:13Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > And this is what you hold up as a great example? This is what I hold up as a great example: > [@Defense of Marriage in Virginia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/defense-of-marriage-in-virginia/378024/37): > > I consider it a matter of established fact, based on what happened in Ohio, that many victims of domestic violence would (at best) find it necessary to go through an extra wringer to obtain those protections or (at worst) be denied them altogether. > > Even the former is unacceptable, given that it would be inflicted as a side effect of an unnecessary measure to ward off a nonexistent problem. That’s a clear and unambiguous prediction. And it clearly and unambiguously has not come to pass – not even the “at best” part. And it was “established fact,” according to him, too. In your McDonald’s example, you used “mediocre meal” as one end of the spectrum. But that DOES happen, routinely. See the difference? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brickers-betting-gambit/667992)._