The elder are not silenced, they can defend themselves. > but also tried to use the fact that people were older as prima facie evidence that their reasoning wa

The elder are not silenced, they can defend themselves. > but also tried to use the fact that people were older as prima facie evidence that their reasoning was bad. Like it or not (I don't like it either), but that may be an argument. Calling that denigration is the easy path out, but it leads nowhere. What has to be done is to refute it, however vulgar that might be. We're dealing with the results of a vulgar, uneducated, haphazard decision anyways.