Ex-LAPD policeman surrounded in cabin in Big Bear, CA

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Armistead

The question you posed was absurd, not rhetorical.


http://www.thefreedictionary.com/absurd

Yes. Illustration of point through absurdity is one of hallmarks of rhetoric.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetori...from_absurdity

Or perhaps now you are attempting to be rhetorical. In this case, I would say that you are being too direct to produce good rhetoric.