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And now we're back to personal insults instead of reasoned debate...  |
Plenty of reasoned debate, if you want it.
For example, all of these are things
you have said:
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By actually bothering to *think* instead of letting others tell us (especially those in the tabloid media) what our opinions should be.
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By actually using our *own* brains for once.
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There are some who, like me, have some understanding of the nature of risk and who don't simply assume that the headlines tell the whole story.
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If you can demonstrate faults or fallacies in my reasoning, please, I would welcome seeing them so I can find out whether it stands up to scrutiny.
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To me these things sound arrogant, particularly:
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...so I can find out whether it stands up to scrutiny.
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Whose scrutiny? Yours? Is that the benchmark? Maybe for you it is, and that's arrogant.
And since you persistently rubbish any reasoning from anyone else, you must believe that only you are right.
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All of the responses you posted were not logical or sensible representations of the facts.
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And with that one sentence you dismiss everything I say as 'rubbish'.
You persist in claiming you're right:
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But from everything I have seen, I believe my conclusions are valid.
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Hence my comment on your belief in your own infallibility.
So it is my opinion which I expressed in that statement that you call a 'personal insult', an opinion formed following the reasoning given above.