It doesn’t seem like you are asking a question or making an inquiry
I’m answering a question.
but if you really do mean to then the possibilities could include both, neither, or something else. Why do I have to pick one or the other
Because only you know. We got into the topic because people responded to your OP as though it was ,but you stonewalled them by saying that you didn’t actually support any of the arguments and claims you went to the trouble of citing. At this stage, no one knows how to make an object level response, and no one is making one. Is that what you wanted?
If you were not raising a question, then what is your above question in relation to? If it was a rhetorical question then you worded it in a way that suggests there is a binary choice, somewhere.
I’m answering a question.
Because only you know. We got into the topic because people responded to your OP as though it was ,but you stonewalled them by saying that you didn’t actually support any of the arguments and claims you went to the trouble of citing. At this stage, no one knows how to make an object level response, and no one is making one. Is that what you wanted?
If you were not raising a question, then what is your above question in relation to? If it was a rhetorical question then you worded it in a way that suggests there is a binary choice, somewhere.