Editing Appeal to ridicule (section)

== Examples ==
This dialogue presents an example of appeal to ridicule:

{{poem quote|Person A: At one time in prehistory, the continents were fused together into a single supercontinent, which we call Pangaea.
Person B: Yes, I definitely believe that hundreds of millions of years ago, some laser cut through the Earth and broke apart a giant landmass into many different pieces.}}

The element of ridicule arises from person B projecting an unstated assumption—that the only means of separating continents would be with a laser—onto the proposition stated by person A.