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'You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.' Legolas Send a noteboard - 09/06/2017 07:16:02 PM

You make a point of repeating ipso facto three times, and all three times it's nothing of the kind. Which, once again, is not to say that your conclusions are necessarily wrong; just that they don't follow from the arguments you make, unless you make various assumptions and subjective judgements about what is proportionate and what isn't. And as you can tell I don't share those.

And I already said I'm not going to bother digging up serious analysis, and hence of course I don't expect to persuade you about anything. I don't know whether or not you expect to persuade me, but you can't be bothered to dig up serious analysis either, fine - I would indeed be a hypocrite if I complained about that - so then neither of us will convince the other and we walk away. If you're lucky, perhaps some day I'll come across someone who argues the same points as you but does prove them, and I'll have to come back and admit that you were right.

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