Jophiel wrote:
Sure. Conversely, you have a vested interest in saying that any given response is not a "legitimate counter argument". In fact, you very often simply dismiss counter arguments as not being legitimate...
Of all the tings you can accuse me of in terms of my posting habits on this forum, that's the least true. I probably spend far more time than I should responding to counter arguments. I don't just dismiss them, I respond to them with my own counter. Pretty darn consistently. Even when they come from Alma.
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...since you lack any decent response.
I disagree. I'm arguably the most likely person on this forum to take another person's post seriously and respond to it with my own, serious, thought out response. You may disagree with what I say, but that doesn't objectively make it not a "decent response". Of course, you're free to subjectively label any response I make as "not decent", but then you're doing exactly that which you just accused me of doing. Dismissing the other person's post without actually addressing it.
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I understand, of course, that you will stridently disagree since pretending to be the only logical guy and thus the correct one is your entire shtick. It's your tautology: I'm the only logical guy and if you were using logic, you would reach the same conclusions, thus you're not using logic.
It's not about me. It's about the content of the posts. If you use logic, then you will arrive at logical conclusions. That
is tautological. That does not mean "the same conclusions", though, since differences in assumptions will result in different equally logical conclusions. The problem I have is that often, the responses I get are not logical at all. That's not because I think I'm the only person who can or does use logic though. I'm just looking at the post itself, not judging the poster.
What I find consistently happens is that someone will make a point, I'll counter it, we may then go back and forth arguing a bit, but inevitably, at some point, the other person will drop any attempt at logical argument, and just start making personal attacks. I usually take that as a sign that they've realized they've lost. I get that that person will never admit this, but that's what's actually happening.
I'm sure you would never do that though!