Another response: your argument style reminds me a little bit of a straw man: > A straw man (or strawman) is a form of argument > and an informal fallacy b

Another response: your argument style reminds me a little bit of a straw man: > A straw man (or strawman) is a form of argument > and an informal fallacy based on giving the > impression of refuting an opponent's argument, > while actually refuting an argument that was not > presented by that opponent. - Wikipedia ... with the twist: instead of engaging with anything I said, you mischaracterize it and large parts of the preceding discussion. Then you use that as a way to dismiss what I wrote as "off topic". I'm going to have some fun looking up what others call that kind of rhetoric.