Reply #48: unfair and destructive [View All]

[m berst]

This is an unfair attack on the op. He is not under any obligation to prove anything to someone who is not being serious nor considerate in the conversation. Using your approach, no conversation could ever occur, because a person would have to write the equivalent of a doctoral thesis to pass the test of your demands for proof before they could make any assertion, or be subject to relentless attacks from you and then be charcterized as illogical and irrational.

This is simply a bullying tactic, IMHO, and adds nothing to the discussion.

The assertion on the table here is more in the way of a hypothesis that the op is encouraging us to explore, not a doctrine that he/she is foisting off on us.