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Is he wrong about this particular issue though?

I know broken clocks and all, but just because you disagree with someone most of the time it doesn't mean that they are wrong about everything.



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Agreed. While I disagree with him on a great many things, he's right about this one.

What do you find him wrong about?

Do you have an explanation for how he's wrong?

Does that make his advice wrong?

Disagree with what he says, not who he is.


I don't think he is utterly wrong, he gave pretty good arguments, and many concur with him.

I don't get it. You're saying that he's wrong because the issue has already been discussed?

He is wrong on many accounts.

Yes. Do you have a point to add to that? Do you feel there’s some reason he’s obviously wrong for example?

To be clear, are you saying that he is wrong, or that what he thinks is not important?

Of course he's wrong a lot. The point isn't that Y is right, it's that X and Y are both wrong but you can't admit to that if you're a hypocrite.

And the "anything he says that is wrong is him joking" is the idea, because it works both ways. If someone says something which is actually wrong, you can make a convincing argument for why if you're willing to be logically consistent yourself.

But there are also things which are politically offensive yet true, and having a reputation for this kind of trolling is what allows someone to say those things out loud. Because then you make the same claim: "Maybe I'm trolling you, if I am just provide the counterargument."

Which you can't do if the counterargument requires you to admit that X is wrong and you refuse to do that, but you also can't do if there is no counterargument because Y is true.

It doesn't matter whether "is he trolling this time" is falsifiable. What matters is if you can disprove his claim. If you can, go for it. If not, what does that say?


I don't think he's crazy; I just think he's wrong.

Serious question. What exactly is he right about?

Whoops, yes, I got that backwards. Anyway, the point is that what he's agreeing and disagreeing with are opinions that aren't just a matter of unambiguous facts and figures.

Explain where you think he is wrong.

Huh? I do not believe he is incorrect about this, but you do, so what is he incorrect about exactly?

What specifically don't you agree with him on?

Anyone willing to consider that maybe he's right about this issue?

How is it wrong? He's making good points. Do you have counter point to his exact statements?

Can you give an example of something specific he says that you disagree with?
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