> "If you've read enough comments, you can predict the arguments people use. So I wasn't assuming anything." "If in an argument, someone brings up the people t

> "If you've read enough comments, you can predict the arguments people use. So I wasn't assuming anything." "If in an argument, someone brings up the people that debate policy and write essays on it and they invoke them and the conclusion of their argument, a reader can choose to interpret that someone as having a different argument than those people that policy debaters they invoked and that's completely legitimate". Yea OP totally was referring to internet comments instead of politicians or people in think tanks that debate policy, especially given that they quote statistics from studies, when they wrote "detractors" /s