Editing Loaded question (section)

==Historical examples==
[[Diogenes Laërtius]] wrote a brief biography of the philosopher [[Menedemus]] in which he relates that:<ref>{{cite journal |last=Walton |first=Douglas N. |author-link=Douglas N. Walton |date=November 1999 |title=The fallacy of many questions: on the notions of complexity, loadedness and unfair entrapment in interrogative theory |journal=Argumentation |volume=13 |issue=4 |pages=379–383 |doi=10.1023/A:1007727929716 |s2cid=141720470 |url=http://www.dougwalton.ca/papers%20in%20pdf/99interrog.pdf |access-date=2020-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221135816/http://dougwalton.ca/papers%20in%20pdf/99interrog.pdf |archive-date=2018-12-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref> {{Blockquote|[O]nce when Alexinus asked him whether he had left off beating his father, he said, "I have not beaten him, and I have not left off;" and when he said further that he ought to put an end to the doubt by answering explicitly yes or no, "It would be absurd," he rejoined, "to comply with your conditions, when I can stop you at the entrance."<ref>{{cite book |last=Laertius |first=Diogenes |translator-last=Yonge |translator-first=Charles Duke |date=1853 |title=The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers |location=London |publisher=H.G. Bohn |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9-YFAAAAQAAJ/page/n120 109] |oclc=3123020 }}</ref>}}

For another example, the [[New Zealand corporal punishment referendum, 2009|2009 referendum on corporal punishment in New Zealand]] asked: "Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand?" Murray Edridge, of Barnardos New Zealand, criticized the question as "loaded and ambiguous" and claimed "the question presupposes that smacking is a part of good parental correction".<ref>{{cite news |date=June 15, 2009 |title=Anti-smacking debate goes to referendum |publisher=3 News |url=http://www.3news.co.nz/nznews/antismacking-debate-goes-to-referendum-2009061517 |access-date=2010-02-03}}{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>