Examples:
Your post: "What if God did this weird thing…
Their reply: “God doesn’t exist so this question is nonsense.”
Your post: “In the year 2075 everyone gets assigned jobs based on…”
Their reply: “Dude, with climate change there will be no us or jobs to do in 2075.”
It’s the Internet. People are trying to have fun and talk about wacky shit and escape from serious matters. Can’t you either refrain from commenting or just play along?
Yes, and it depends very much on context. It’s one thing to explore hypotheticals as an exercise; it’s quite another to indulge in hypotheticals to prop up unrealistic ideas. It’s also disingenuous to smuggle in assertions as unassailable by wrapping them in “hypotheticals.”
Yeah, there’s a fine line between “devil’s advocacy” and “concern trolling.”