You're welcome! It's possible you were right, if we can interpret the "attack" as being purely intended to undermine the original argument. I just didn't pers

You're welcome! It's possible you were right, if we can interpret the "attack" as being purely intended to undermine the original argument. I just didn't personally interpret it that way... it looked more like a side-observation to me, something like "name-calling" under Paul Graham's categorisation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(programmer)#Graham's_Hierarchy_of_Disagreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(programmer)#Graha...