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[–]theFriendlyDoomer 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I know this, and I feel ZERO desire to convince you

Why the fuck would I care about convincing you, either? If you're too lazy to share any of this "homework" you've done, then consider me unconvinced. Here's the other cool thing: neither of can do anything about it, so it in no way matters.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I've done the homework once, years ago. I will not do it again for you, and then again in 6 months for somebody else, and so on. Whoever has enough interest in the question will likely do the same and report the results, agreeing with me. Since you don't care about the question, why are you posting about it? You know?

[–]theFriendlyDoomer 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I will not do it again for you, and then again in 6 months for somebody else, and so on. Whoever has enough interest in the question will likely do the same and report the results, agreeing with me.

I can at least relate to that. But also that's what's downright silly about your "prove me wrong." I, too, don't want to re-hash stuff forever.

Since you don't care about the question, why are you posting about it? You know?

Read the thread again. The context was what I didn't like about a site. Later on, when someone else asked me to expand, I wrote that the main problem is making a claim without links or explaining methodology. The person who makes a claim has the burden of proof. If you check my history here or Reddit you'll see that I am rarely a person making a post that is a claim. But when I do, I show my homework. When I don't want to have the discussion, I don't start it. For example, here's me writing against Eugenics.. It has links, it has footnotes, a large quote from a book.

If I'm wrong, at least people can check up on how I came to my conclusions. They don't just have to take my word for it. (And they certainly shouldn't just take my word for it in a Karma-farming environment).

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We are mostly in agreement. However, if you do your homework in 1998 and later in 2002 somebody asks you for the links, then again in 2008, then again in 2012 and again in 2020, then you will be posting "claims" that stem from serious research.