content: Haha, you got me. I am actually part of the conspiracy.                  Regarding the begging the question, I am not sure as to why you would call it a fallacy. Could you provide some more details? Because discussing motivation and side effects of a proposed action is important to a lot of discussions. In such hypotheticals you assume the premise is true to envision motivations you aren't actually arguing the premise is true. For example the form is:                            e.g Claiming X is true, Premise assuming X is true, conclusion X is true.                                The form of the argument in the video. Claiming X isn't true. If X were true then Y and Z would occur, Y and Z are unfavourable and make the motivation non sensical,  Conclusion X is not true.                  The conclusion isn't the assumed in the premise, so as far as I am aware that wouldn't make it begging the question.