I'm not sure if you're meta-trolling me by doing the exact thing I'm agitating against (i.e., dishonest selective quoting, flippant dismissiveness, dialectical

I'm not sure if you're meta-trolling me by doing the exact thing I'm agitating against (i.e., dishonest selective quoting, flippant dismissiveness, dialectical rigidity), but I'll take the most generous interpretation and just assume you're short on time and haven't fully internalized the point. We're beyond the point of 'just' downvoting and 'moving on'. Sometimes some needs to take a stand against moronification. I'm not volunteering to be that person and maybe my original reply wasn't even in that category, but not speaking up (and let's face it, downvoting doesn't count) lets this sort of thing fester on. At the risk of beaten an old cliche'd horse - "first they came for xyz [...] and then there was nobody to speak up left" etc. etc. I don't mind the occasional post calling out utter rhetorical garbage; if only to affirm that there are people left who don't mind debate as long as it's done in honesty and in an informed way, rather than 'I have a [deity-given|natural] right to shout whatever springs into my head at everybody else'. If someone were to gauge opinion from online discourse, they'd have no alternative but to conclude that there is nobody left who can hold an opinion that is more complicated than 'THIS ME LIKE' or 'THIS ME HATE, MUST SMASH'. "If you make a comment make it a substantial one." That's rather ironic coming from someone who with two dismissive one-sentence posts ignores a whole complex point being made - a point that, while it may not be 'novel', is certainly contrary to the majority's concept of 'democracy' and 'fairness'.