> Hyperbole is rarely useful.

So you'll use some other kind of fallacious argument? anyway, it wasn't hyperbole. it's reduction to absurdity. Your struggle is that you don't realize that I'm right because you are in the situation that I describe. if you want to be helpful to yourself, then you can ask me for proof of what I'm talking about instead of merely causing doubt in the minds of any other readers. If you have any real counterexample or proof then you are free to present it. Meanwhile, I've got tons of evidence for what I said and it would be lucky for the world if that were true, would it not? and if hyperbole is not so helpful, then why don't you help by giving some other examples to substantiate my argument? That's collaboration in good faith. so are you actually disagreeing with what I'm saying or are you just attempting to plant doubt in people's minds and not being forthcoming about why even with yourself?

Something supposedly hyperbolic should be even easier to disprove. That's why I posed it that way - to leave you less room for doubt as I start to show you positive evidence. If it turns out I was right, would you still be upset at me for saying that intelligent people fall for fallacies? That doesn't have to be your fate unless you somehow participate in it, and I would suggest to you it's because you've accepted something untrue and uncomfirmed without realizing it, leading you to assume that no one has a solution, simply because you've never experienced or encountered them. Lucky for us there are people who know things we don't and have not yet imagined and whose levels in some areas are much higher than our own. The humble or cultivated in virtue know this and are lucky for it as they see it as a benefit rather than an afront to their pride or reflection on themselves somehow.