Romantic-Comedy Behavior Gets Real-Life Man Arrested

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Or at least it should.

Comments

[amyvanhym]

>"Your claim, that anything short of kidnap, assault, and other uses of force is merely an "argument" isn't a good one."

That's not my claim. I also said 'threaten' and 'strongarm,' terms for force and threat of force both physical and non-physical. I used these words directly at the start and end of the list you quoted, but you left them out, misrepresenting (strawmanning) me in a way that I can't imagine was not deliberate, due to the close proximity of the part you acknowledged and the part you ignored, as well as the fact that your 'mobster threat' analogy depends on my not having said 'threaten' in order to work at all. This is clear enough evidence of bad faith engagement that I have no reason to believe you have anything to teach me, nor that you are willing to learn anything from me. Doubly so as your likening of a romantic display to a mobster's threat shows an absolutely laughable inability to assess intent, and triply as you reduce matters of moral eqivalence to the ranked quantitative, ignoring that there are different types of bad actions in strategy and effect preventing equivalence, which suggests you lack a whole dimension of thinking capacity. And that's just after a quick glancing-over, which is much more than this pompous mountain of distortion and hostile conjecture deserves. I am not going waste any more of my time trying to dispel a crazy and closed-minded stranger's cartoonish misanthropy. Tootle-oo.

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[johnpalmer]

Thank you! I knew you'd declare yourself right, but I *never* imagined you'd go so far as to call the mobster's *DELIBERATE* use of language that elides the threat, while allowing clear inference, to be a "threat". That was delightful.

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