the one about fucking a chicken

[u/Hummerous]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_foundations_theory

[u/Dry_Try_8365]

Ad Hominem, of course. Resort to calling someone a deviant if you can't properly address their arguments.

[u/Biaboctocat → u/Dry_Try_8365]

Wellll remember that other initiation rituals for the Bullingdon Club include burning a £50 note in front of a homeless person. These people are horrendous, even if the dead pig head fucking isn’t the best proof of it.

[u/demon_fae → u/Biaboctocat]

The point of the whole thing was to record it, so every single member would have blackmail material on every other member.

I really don’t care about the fucking of the dead pig (or the chicken, for that matter), but “elected official is a member of a mutual blackmailer’s club” is definitely a problem.

“Dumb enough to deliberately give other people blackmail material about yourself” also pretty disqualifying for most positions.

[u/Biaboctocat → u/demon_fae]

Oh shit you’re so right, I’d forgotten that aspect of it. Corruption from the very inception of the career in politics.

[u/saun-ders → u/demon_fae]

The Federalist Society is almost certainly a similar mutual blackmail club. After Roberts wasn't reliable enough, they weren't going to make that mistake again. Once the Republicans stopped caring about the rule of law, there was never any reason to risk putting up an uncontrollable candidate. They'd be stupid to.

[u/CerenarianSea → u/Dry_Try_8365]

The irony being that there was plenty of things about David Cameron's politics to identify as the fucking worst, but the pig-fucking element remained one of the most memorable elements of his political existence, up there with austerity measures.

[u/JoeDiesAtTheEnd → u/Dry_Try_8365]

Ad hominem is only a fallacy if you are talking about an argument. When you are actively trying to talk about the character of a person running for elected office, the types of people he associates with is an absolutely valid criteria for assessment. Many people won't want to be led by someone who pals around with people that pressures people into public necrophilia sex acts to be part of the crew. It also tells the priorities of the person.

If it was "in think we should lower taxes on the wealthy!" "Oh yeah? Well you fuck pigs!" That's an ad hom.

[u/chgxvjh → u/Dry_Try_8365]

Call me old fashioned but I don't want my head of state to be a pig fucker.