That entire argument (which I’d read before, but re-read now) seems to me to be wrongheaded in so many different ways that I’d have to write a response at least twice as long to untangle it.
Just giving you an opportunity to hang “this is wrongheaded” on something more legible than “Said opaquely asserts that it is so.” Perfectly fine for you not to feel like taking it.
Please, do so.
That would be exactly the sort of “starting that conversation again” that I said I didn’t want to do…
Just giving you an opportunity to hang “this is wrongheaded” on something more legible than “Said opaquely asserts that it is so.” Perfectly fine for you not to feel like taking it.