Agnostic atheism: a reasonable position on spiritual matters, or the only reasonable position...

[gcomeau]

117. There's always something to address.

For example, justifying why you don't agree with the premise. That's something to address.

"When the definition of a word begins to change, it will change no matter how you rail against it."

I am not arguing about whether the definition of the word has been added to. (It has not changed. It has simply been given an alternate definition by the uninformed who are unaware of the original, meaningful definition). I am arguing about whether the new additional definition of the word is *rational* and can be meaningfully applied to real people to describe real states. (Which it cannot).

"You think they're wrong, but they don't care if you do. "

That is just another dodge. Instead of dealing with criticism of a position just declare that any criticism is irrelevant because you don't want to listen to it and your position is your position because you want it to be. LALALALALALALA.

Yes, people can do that. But I will not be expected to just act like that's a mature and rational approach to any dispute... that's the kind of bullshit approach to the world that gives us things like the Fox News Reality Bubble. I am not going to pretend that's ok just because it's people here doing it instead. If a person's position can't withstand engaging with serious criticism that should be setting off warning bells in their head, not causing them to burrow deeper into their comfortable little cocoon and clamp their hands over their ears.


And I'm going to keep right on poking those bubbles with sharp objects. No matter whose little reality-denying world it contains.

"You demand that people engage with you only on your terms."

Asking you to present some kind of argument for your position or against mine instead of just avoiding doing so with a bunch of excuses while declaring me wrong by decree is not some unreasonable demand for you to "engage on my terms". It's an expectation that if you're going to participate in the discussion then *engage at all*. Don't just show up to tell me all about how you're not going to deal with anything I'm saying. You can throw around all the accusations about my grating personality you want but THAT is profoundly rude and disrespectful and it was your opening move.