# What were you THINKING?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/872 "2024-01-21T21:41:06Z")

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> [@Alec Baldwin \[accidentally\] Kills Crew Member with Prop Gun {2021-10-21}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alec-baldwin-accidentally-kills-crew-member-with-prop-gun-2021-10-21/952960/2382):
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> And you should also know that I wasn’t _implying_ that was literally what was meant. It was obviously rhetorical, mocking the weakness of the appeal to emotion in the argument.

Actually, it was an attempt to reframe the discussion in human terms and not treat the discussion as arising out of some kind of abstraction, you god damn sociopath.

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