I was also struck by how weird it was that people were nitpicking totally incidental parts of my post, which, even if granted, didn’t actually deduct from the essence of what I was saying.
I see this in lots of places where it’s clearly not an argument by attrition. There’s a sizable fraction of people on the Internet who are just over-literal.
I see this in lots of places where it’s clearly not an argument by attrition. There’s a sizable fraction of people on the Internet who are just over-literal.