This comment isn’t even intelligible. I can’t tell whether or not you’re being sarcastic when you write
Whoops. My bad. That knocks one of the legs out of my claim that he was deliberately trying to be creepy. It still appears to me that he was, but the case is less strong now.
I have no idea what my allusion to the Knox case could possibly have had to do with this. Maybe that was your (sarcastic) point, but, like I said, I can’t tell.
No sarcasm here at all. As to what the Knox allusion meant to me, I was totally unaware that the case had been a topic of discussion here. (I’ve only been here for a little over a month.) So, when the context was choosing an example of a small probability, and your choice of example happened to be a case of gruesome violence against a woman with sexual overtones, it certainly seemed to me to be just one more example of creepiness. A glaring example, since I could see no reason for it to have been chosen.
Boy, was I wrong! I sincerely apologize for thinking that this was evidence of creepiness when, quite clearly, there was another explanation.
Edit: Just something that bothered me.
If your familiarity with me was really so low that you were actually unaware of those posts of mine, then your credibility on the issue of my motives is … beyond nonexistent.
My credibility regarding your motive is zero and it has always been zero. You are the only person with credibility regarding your own motivation. All I can do is point to evidence of your motivation in your own writings. That doesn’t require me to have credibility, authority, or anything else. I have no power to convince anyone. All I can do is to point to the evidence that is out there, describe my analysis, and see if anyone else analyzes it the same way I do. If someone else analyzes it differently and explains it better, or if someone with credibility (that could only be you) corrects my assumptions, then I convince no one, not even myself.
No sarcasm here at all. As to what the Knox allusion meant to me, I was totally unaware that the case had been a topic of discussion here. (I’ve only been here for a little over a month.) So, when the context was choosing an example of a small probability, and your choice of example happened to be a case of gruesome violence against a woman with sexual overtones, it certainly seemed to me to be just one more example of creepiness. A glaring example, since I could see no reason for it to have been chosen.
Boy, was I wrong! I sincerely apologize for thinking that this was evidence of creepiness when, quite clearly, there was another explanation.
Edit: Just something that bothered me.
My credibility regarding your motive is zero and it has always been zero. You are the only person with credibility regarding your own motivation. All I can do is point to evidence of your motivation in your own writings. That doesn’t require me to have credibility, authority, or anything else. I have no power to convince anyone. All I can do is to point to the evidence that is out there, describe my analysis, and see if anyone else analyzes it the same way I do. If someone else analyzes it differently and explains it better, or if someone with credibility (that could only be you) corrects my assumptions, then I convince no one, not even myself.