It’s true: you never say, in so many words, that anyone is not human. On the other hand, you begin with a quotation from Dune in which someone says “Let us say I suggest you may be human”; and you end by proposing to plot people’s attributes on a cube one of whose corners is “not human at all”. I don’t think it’s fair to put all the blame on something in [my] brain here; I think you (deliberately or not, consciously or not) wrote what you did in such a way as to suggest the rounding-off in question, even while maintaining some deniability.
I thought I went out of my way not to make claims about what’s going on in your head. I said that you wrote what you did in such a way as to suggest the rounding-off you were happy to ascribe to something in my head. I very deliberately and explicitly didn’t speculate on what the internal causes of that might have been.
(Is it possible that you misread “in such a way as to suggest” as something like “with the purpose of suggesting”?)
It’s true: you never say, in so many words, that anyone is not human. On the other hand, you begin with a quotation from Dune in which someone says “Let us say I suggest you may be human”; and you end by proposing to plot people’s attributes on a cube one of whose corners is “not human at all”. I don’t think it’s fair to put all the blame on something in [my] brain here; I think you (deliberately or not, consciously or not) wrote what you did in such a way as to suggest the rounding-off in question, even while maintaining some deniability.
*sigh*
I object on principle to what I see as a non-falsifiable claim by an outside person about what’s going on in my own head.
I thought I went out of my way not to make claims about what’s going on in your head. I said that you wrote what you did in such a way as to suggest the rounding-off you were happy to ascribe to something in my head. I very deliberately and explicitly didn’t speculate on what the internal causes of that might have been.
(Is it possible that you misread “in such a way as to suggest” as something like “with the purpose of suggesting”?)
Yeah, that misreading is a possible explanation for my reaction. +1 for doing better hypothesizing than me in this case.