The use of manipulative rhetorical techniques to try to discredit a person as a unless they ‘virtue signal’ while trapped in an accusatory hypothetical question. Refers to this video of a cuttlefish trapped in a researcher’s aquarium, with artificial backdrops designed to force the cuttlefish to conform its colors:
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