BigNote

What argument? 20+ arguments were made. Which one am I meant to address?

If I focus on one you’ll jump on me for not addressing the 19 others, which is why it’s a bullshit tactic.

Yes. That’s correct.

I choose not to waste my time. What do you do when dealing with bad-faith actors?

When everyone you meet is an asshole, you are probably the real asshole.

Funny how this works with social media as well.

That’s a fair question and in all honesty the answer is no, because based on what I can easily see and understand of hexbears, they aren’t intellectually serious people and to the contrary are more akin to a kind of 4-chan trolling community than anything worth actual intellectual engagement.

I could be wrong, but so far I have yet to see any evidence as such.

If you have to ask…

As if Hobbes’ Leviathan isn’t a thing. Thanks, but no thanks. This is a pedestrian understanding of reality, and one with which I have zero desire to engage.

Good day.

Precisely my point. My degree in poly sci means nothing, you guys somehow “know” better than me.

It’s a huge part of why no one who matters actually takes you seriously.

You are not intellectually serious people, you don’t actually care about honest and open discussion of ideas, you are far more interested in policing language than you are in constructive conversation.

As if it’s somehow impossible to make a long comment in support of a single argument? As if Gish galloping comments don’t actually exist? Do I follow your logic properly? What part about this do I not understand?

Yes, because engaging with hexbears is a waste of time. They are not here in good faith. Either that or they don’t know any better, which in practice amounts to the same thing.

When everyone you meet is an asshole, guess what? You’re the asshole.