Your first response to my comment was not to declare it “bullshit” but to declare it “evil”. Furthermore, all your reasons boil down to “How dare you invoke the outside view when we all know Evil Things(tm) are happening”. And you don’t bother to engage with any of the arguments I provided.
Your first response to my comment was not to declare it “bullshit” but to declare it “evil”.
This accusation seems to be actively relying on the assumption that readers will not check the context to verify accuracy. The first two sentences in the reply in question seem to be quite clearly declaring ‘bullshit’. In particular note the phrases “distortion of reasoning”, “so obviously bad and yet remains common” and “all too seldom refuted”. I quite frequently reference on bullshit when describing that pattern of behaviour but it doesn’t seem necessary to explicitly use the word ‘bullshit’ every single time. In fact I try to make myself use natural language descriptions like this rather than using bullshit every time because that habit would just get weird.
Furthermore, all your reasons boil down to “How dare you invoke the outside view when we all know Evil Things(tm) are happening”.
This is false. Eugine_Nier has presented approximately the same straw man previously and it was false then too. I conclude that he has little interest in making his accusations match reality.
And you don’t bother to engage with any of the arguments I provided.
I did engage, and that was a mistake. Like other users have mentioned in the past I now must concur that Eugine_Nier is systematically incapable of engaging in good-faith conversation. I will henceforth refrain from communicating with Eugine_Nier except when I deem it necessary to lend support to another user I perceive to be mistreated (via straw man barrages and the like). Apart from such cases I will limit myself to downvoting as appropriate then ignoring.
Your first response to my comment was not to declare it “bullshit” but to declare it “evil”. Furthermore, all your reasons boil down to “How dare you invoke the outside view when we all know Evil Things(tm) are happening”. And you don’t bother to engage with any of the arguments I provided.
This accusation seems to be actively relying on the assumption that readers will not check the context to verify accuracy. The first two sentences in the reply in question seem to be quite clearly declaring ‘bullshit’. In particular note the phrases “distortion of reasoning”, “so obviously bad and yet remains common” and “all too seldom refuted”. I quite frequently reference on bullshit when describing that pattern of behaviour but it doesn’t seem necessary to explicitly use the word ‘bullshit’ every single time. In fact I try to make myself use natural language descriptions like this rather than using bullshit every time because that habit would just get weird.
This is false. Eugine_Nier has presented approximately the same straw man previously and it was false then too. I conclude that he has little interest in making his accusations match reality.
I did engage, and that was a mistake. Like other users have mentioned in the past I now must concur that Eugine_Nier is systematically incapable of engaging in good-faith conversation. I will henceforth refrain from communicating with Eugine_Nier except when I deem it necessary to lend support to another user I perceive to be mistreated (via straw man barrages and the like). Apart from such cases I will limit myself to downvoting as appropriate then ignoring.