Gethelred
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- May 1, 2016
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Uh-uh. This is what you said about the people who criticised you:Who is arguing that is cannot? I critiqued them and posted what I thought of them. What's the issue?
That's not a critique, that's a strawman of their reasons for disagreeing with you.Anyone with that opinion is usually lambasted.
'Usually' is doing an awful lot of work for you.Again, you are making this up which is a clear trend for you. I said most of the posts disagreeing did so in the manner that I explained. Nothing about entirety.
Nonetheless, I concede that you intended for a different interpretation. Do you concede that their reasons for disagreeing with you might be other than you've portrayed them to be?
You like the moral high ground. I'm questioning both how moral and how high that ground is.How vague it is is up for debate, but so what? I have never shied away from that it is an opinion of mine. What's the point of all of this?
You don't seem to like me pointing out that your opinion isn't an educated one.Very debatable. Again, what's the point of all of this?
Trip you up? I mean, I've already done it; I don't need to keep doing it.You are interested in trying to 'trip me up' and it's not going very well.
...You clearly disagree with me and that's fine. All the the mental gymnastics about 'your opinion, my opinion, their opinion' is not required and nothing of substance is really being debated here.
You do realize where you're saying this, right? This is a) on the internet, where nothing of worth or substance was ever said or done, and b) on Bigfooty, where even less conversation is of worth than elsewhere online.
Nothing of substance is ever debated here.
I think you'll either have to forgive me for pointing out where and when you're inconsistent, or you won't. Pointing out that it's meaningless doesn't really add or subtract anything.
Something definitively happened; if it didn't happen, there would be no NDA, and no complaint made. What that something is cannot be said, but that something happened is a statement of fact."Something that can be demonstrated to have happened" is simply false if you're referring to any incident relating to Lyon and the female staffer.
If a tree falls in the woods and everyone who saw it and heard it happen all collectively agreed not to admit to it happening or to talk about it under the force of a court order, the tree still fell in the woods. Just because those who saw it choose not to tell anyone doesn't change the fact that it happened.
And that's where you run into issues. Where, at all, have I said any of that? Have I said anything on the subject?Were you there? Has either party made a statement of fact about what happened? Pretending that it's factual that Ross broke the law or is a threat to women in any way doesn't make it so.
The above is about you wanting to go on the attack, because defense wasn't going so well.