If he let you just throw that grenade blowing up his statement stand then it wouldn't be a good debate and you just lost credibility by going on the offensive after he asked you to justify your rationale. You guys both seem to have gotten overly sensitive here but I'll agree with Justus. If you've got some point to make, why defer it unless it consists of name calling and soft reasoning.

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> On Aug 25, 2014, at 7:34 AM, Julia Tourianski <juliatourianski@???> wrote:
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> Sorry Justus, I didn't intend to hit an emotional nerve with you. I'm going to wrap this up before it becomes too entertaining for the "undo crew"
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> Besides, sometimes you have to allow a person to be right, because that's all they'll ever be.
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>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 4:12 AM, Justus Ranvier <justusranvier@???> wrote:
>> On 08/25/2014 01:32 AM, Julia Tourianski wrote:
>> > "Prove it"
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>> > Reminds me of a kid yelling on a playground when another kid disagrees with him
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>> > Haha
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>> I'm sorry you've gotten as as far as you have in life without anyone
>> ever telling you this before, and there's no way to sugar coat this, but
>> what you are doing here in the conversation is proving that you are
>> mentally stuck in that playground.
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>> It really is obligatory on the part of the person making positive claims
>> to prove them. Nobody gets to just make shit up, insult anyone who
>> properly asks for a rational justification and call what they are doing
>> thinking.
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>> > Feel free to pm me but I doubt either one of us will prove anything - lucky for me, I don't deal in absolutist ideals
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>> Because of the major contraction in this sentence, I can translate that
>> into, "I won't listen to proofs, because I am unwilling or unable to think."
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>> The reason I'm telling you this is because clearly nobody ever has
>> before. You should know that rational thinking is an option you can
>> pursue, but you won't be able to do that until you realize that you're
>> not already.
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