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points by matheusmoreira 3 days ago | 0 comments

I think I was confused by this mom analogy. From my perspective, it came out of nowhere. Made the wrong inference. I apologize if I offended. I was focused on possible conflicts of interest, there were none in the analogy.

Can we simply disagree without these nasty insinuations of mental illness and bad faith?

[–] CRConrad 1 day ago

Yeah, OK, the mental illness bit may have been a bit OTT. (But you had brought that history up yourself earlier.) The bad faith part, though: Not to get the obvious analogy certainly felt that way to me. I still have trouble seeing how one couldn't, in good faith, get something so obvious.

But anyway... So, now that we're all on the same page about how circumstances can change from one point in time to another — do you feel up to admitting that your argument about "They did it one way then and another now!" is bogus, and retracting it?

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[Edited: Changed erroneous "one" to "on".]

[Sigh, edited again: Changed erroneous "form" to "from".]