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In this sort of writing, such rhetorical techniques should be used sparingly, especially if you want to be taken seriously. Policy editorials need to stick to evidence, clear writing and solutions, not go off the rails with the polemics.

yea, I'm going to agree. This piece is pretty disappointing in that regard.

> did anyone else immediately think of acid baths rather than hormone pills

Maybe you wanna keep that one on the inside . . .

I don't think that was a rhetorical device; at least - I didn't recognize it as such. Though it must be...

Mustn't it?

Not me ... if you have to make someone suffer with potent chemicals - bases are way nastier than acids.