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It's not a logical syllogism. And I would hope you have more to say about the coherence of a position than that it's merely not forbidden by logic, which is something less than an affirmative defense of its coherence and its motivations. It's about the perfect being the enemy of the good. "Well it's not forbidden by logic" is about as pathetically empty handed as it gets, in terms of accounting for which battles you're picking.


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