The Mandate is very into polar binaries, it's in all their rhetoric. "What?" they'd say. "You don't want this unpleasant circumstance we're forcing on you? Then you're obviously in favour of this absurdly exaggerated opposite we've just invented." Or countless variants on that. "You don't want these laws? Then you must want rampant anarchy!" was the one you saw trotted out most often.

— Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky (duplicate) (13%)