Re: skinny runners


JAE wrote:
> Lee, you're arguing with someone singularly immune to reason. You're
> arguing with someone whose reasoning resembles that found in
> psychiatric lockdown. Marc will continue to insist that you prove a
> negative, will continue to insist that he has "comparative evidence"
> that "proves" his position and that you've still not got "one arguement
> against" it. No appeals to reason (e.g. asking him to explain and
> defend this supposed comparative evidence, confronting him with the
> fact that his defense is a request to prove a negative, providing
> several arguments against the superbly nebulous 'scenario' he's
> supposedly advocating) will ever change this. I suspect you know this
> and I suspect you're just having fun at his expense or hope to at least
> dissuade those seemingly susceptible to his contagious illogic, but
> just in case you actually thought Marc could change his mind, he can't
> or won't.

And Algis? :-)

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