> This is just another way of attacking someone else's position, with the added bonus of letting you be intolerably smug while you do it. Ah, yes. The author i

> This is just another way of attacking someone else's position, with the added bonus of letting you be intolerably smug while you do it. Ah, yes. The author is so intolerably smug, the way he didn't advance his own message to the woman, and asked her to speak more of her own experience. I know that I, for one, can't handle it when someone ask for more information without expressing any statement of judgement - I mean, the sheer smugness of it is just intolerable. > This, on the other hand, is a way of reconciling the fact that you obviously don't have a good reason to believe the things you do Even though the author clearly and concisely explains why his own opinion is different to the woman's? It's not like it's a complex or hard to read article. There's a considerable amount of projection going on in your comment. I find the commentary about smugness quite ironic, really.