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I am not going into my experience because it is personal and would identify me. My 'evidance' is not my anecdotal experience. My evidance' is suggesting that you look up what the experts say.
They all agree.
But really, why the hostility? Did I come across as rude? I didn't think I did.
You're coming off as someone who's making appeals to authority without actually providing any source on what you're claiming.
In any argument you can simply say: "You're wrong, look up what the experts say, they all agree!". That leaves the person you're arguing with with absolutely nothing to go on, because you haven't defined what you consider to be an expert, what exactly they all supposedly agree on or where to find said experts. Let's say I find a source that says I am right, then you can simply say "Well, that isn't an expert". Let's say I don't find any sources that agree with you, then you can simply say "You haven't looked". Hence why you haven't actually made an argument, all you've created is an ever shifting fata morgana of a goalpost.
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[–] Aetrion ago
Is this some kind of parody of a weasely, incredibly vague rebuttal?
[–] InnocentBystander ago
Why the hostility?
I am not going into my experience because it is personal and would identify me. My 'evidance' is not my anecdotal experience. My evidance' is suggesting that you look up what the experts say.
They all agree.
But really, why the hostility? Did I come across as rude? I didn't think I did.
[–] Aetrion ago
You're coming off as someone who's making appeals to authority without actually providing any source on what you're claiming.
In any argument you can simply say: "You're wrong, look up what the experts say, they all agree!". That leaves the person you're arguing with with absolutely nothing to go on, because you haven't defined what you consider to be an expert, what exactly they all supposedly agree on or where to find said experts. Let's say I find a source that says I am right, then you can simply say "Well, that isn't an expert". Let's say I don't find any sources that agree with you, then you can simply say "You haven't looked". Hence why you haven't actually made an argument, all you've created is an ever shifting fata morgana of a goalpost.