Strawman Has a Point: Difference between revisions

** In "The Super Speedy Cyder Squeezy 5000," Flim and Flam were technically correct in their original claim; that their machine could outproduce the efforts of the Apple family ''alone'', and although they agreed to change the conditions and then lost because they got cocky, Applejack ends the episode getting equally cocky about a pretty hollow victory--she only won the bet via labor intensification; having to double her workforce on short notice. With the lack of industrialism established, next season either the town will have to face the same sort of shortages it did in the beginning of the episode, or be forced to suspend most other facets of its economy, possibly including the more necessary ones, just so it can create a large supply of consumer goods that are nice, but far from necessary.

*** ''Or'' Applejack could just hire her five friends -- or anypony else in town -- again to help out with the next harvest for a day, now that she knows that they're willing to do so and that it would work. The only reason it was a problem in the first place is because the Apple Family takes self-reliance to [[Honor Before Reason]] levels.

* In ''[[Justice League]]'':

** This once happened to the ''writers''. During "A Better World," Batman and his [[Mirror Universe]] [[Knight Templar|counterpart]] are having a battle/argument in the batcave. League!Bats is arguing that freedom is worth preserving, even at the risk of harm, while Lord!Bats argues that by taking away freedom they have ensured security. Initially, League!Bats was supposed to win the argument, but when they wrote the [[Armor-Piercing Question|Armor Piercing Line]], "[W]e've made a world where no eight-year-old will ever [[Parental Abandonment|lose his parents]] because of [[Death by Origin Story|some punk with a gun]]," for Lord!Bats, the writers could not think of any counterargument that League!Bats could give. Despite the writer's own intention of having League!Batman win, they had to re-write the scene to have Lord!Batman win since there really was no adequate response. In the end, {{spoiler|League!Bats shows Lord!Bats the world he created, in which a man gets arrested and beaten for stating he wouldn't pay for his food and notes that mom and dad would [[Sarcasm Mode|be proud of the world he created]].}}