Taken to the extreme, this logic would see the TSA banning people from airplanes.
With the Jorgensen conviction, it could be argued that she "recklessly" chose to live in a dangerous neighborhood, or she saw the gun but didn't duck, or committed countless other "unreasonable" behaviors that, no matter how extreme the logic, could be used against her.
Indeed, when taken to its logical extreme, Tagliabue's logic might bring into striking relief the extent to which the senior ranks of league management continue to be administered by individuals who are similarly misrepresentative of the majority of game participants.
That's always the trick because they run much further than you ever expect, they go to much bigger extremes than logic would ever take you.
Yet Trump has taken it to an extreme, applying the logic of neoliberalism so literally as to be almost parody.
While any and all observations contain this inherent paradox, it becomes visible only when pushed to the extreme, either of logic or of the physical world.
The solution may sound extreme, but the logic behind it is pretty sensible.
Perhaps when we are outraged, any excuse to lash out, even employing extreme leaps of logic, becomes irresistible.
Taken to its extreme, some say, the logic of the French decision would mean that every regulation around the world would apply in every corner of the online world.
It's not something the book goes into, but while reading it I found myself thinking about how the notion of colonising Mars, as advanced by entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, represents the most extreme operation of this logic in our time.
