
On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 03:44:02 +1100 Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 12:34:45PM +0100, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 10:58:02 +1100 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
Lots of words that basically say: Stuff wouldn't be perfectly pure.
Chris, please learn to think twice before contributing what is essentially a trivialization of someone else's arguments. You're not doing anything useful here, and are just sounding like an asshole who wants to shut people up.
I don't think you are being fair here, and I'd rather avoid getting into unhelpful arguments about tone and whether Chris is "trivializing" (a perjorative term) or "simplifying" (a more neutral term) Josh's position. But if you feel that Chris (and I) have missed parts of Josh's argument, then by all means point out what we missed.
When someone posts an elaborate argument (regardless of whether they are right or not) and someone else responds a one-liner that reduces it to "lots of words" and claims to rephrase it as a short caricatural statement, then it seems fair to me to characterize it as "trivializing". But if you feel that I missed a subtlety in Chris' position, and if you feel he was more respectful of the OP than I felt he was, then by all means point out what I missed. Regards Antoine.