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The “view encapsulated above” in your post is a distorted view.
And anyone can at this very moment decide to check any of my posts in the thread to see you are wrong - and that my encapsulation represents the views I've defended through the thread.
It's bizarre: I literally tell you my own viewpoint, but you won't accept it and claim I am distorting my own viewpoint and arguments.
Have you considered for a moment that I know my own views, and that maybe you are distorting my views?
What actually happens is more like I already summarised in my post, that you hand-waved away with the words “ad hominem / strawman”. And the net result is that: the actual authority and expert has left the discussion; his words have been largely drowned out and swamped by your excesses (Most words wins? Last post wins?); and the casual reader of the forum might get entirely the wrong view about what is and isn’t factual, if he or she can even still find the long-buried authoritative expert input, and has enough nous to disregard your carry-on.
Obfuscation.
So, you will continue to ignore my stated views and arguments, not address anything I actually wrote to show it's unreasonable, and instead substitute your own distorted, vague, strawmen characterizations.
Well, I gave it a try Newman: offered you a chance to engage in Good Faith discussion. I guess it's hopeless.
And you know what the biggest single reason is for the above trainwreck?
Yes: Strawmanning and a refusal to engage in good faith discussion. Where one refuses to try to understand the position of someone with whom they think they disagree, such as you continue to display in threads like this. Unfortunately. It really doesn't have to be that way.
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