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Pasting links does not an argument make, it also does not take a lot of effort. You've made few if any valid arguments, throughout the course of this discussion

Pasting links does not an argument make, it also does not take a lot of effort. You've made few if any valid arguments, throughout the course of this discussion. To repeat an argument - first you have to make an argument. Again I will help you with your obvious difficulties in reading comprehension, although I cannot help you with your stubbornness. In the link you pasted Andi makes a short comment about education being more important than technical progress (especially technical progress at all costs). This is not anti research, and this is not Luddite. It's pro education! It's very important to read those last three words 'at all costs'. If you have a look here at a comment in the same thread: >> Of course it is OK and important - especially for the poorer countries - to make power cheaper. But NEVER at all costs. See the phrase 'at all costs' he used in the later comment you refer to? Nowhere does he make an argument against all progress, he's arguing against ignoring the the cost ('at all costs') of nuclear reactors for future generations. He even argues for making power cheaper for people in poorer countries. Hardly the behaviour of a Luddite, don't you think?! So these comments are irrelevant to our discussion, and they do not show Andi to have Luddite opinions. Here's the question that you have gone to enormous lengths to ignore - one more time, and strangely, I amn't tired asking you again: There is no forced binary choice to be made between living as luddites, and ignoring the cost of nuclear reactors for nature and future generations. Do you agree or disagree with this statement?

berntb 15y ago
>> You've made few if any valid arguments I made fun of a guy that wrote anti-technological arguments about expecting technical solutions to problems as being a "religion". The guy wrote the same thing in multiple other comments. You call me on that -- and write WALLS of text, insisting that the first comment was only about nuclear tech and that the other comments (note, pluralis) are irrelevant for other unlikely reasons. If you didn't put time into writing well, I'd be certain you're a troll. So congratulations, you got another comment out of me. I must assume that is your motivation into writing possible explanations for what "Andi" really means, when he wrote the same thing multiple times.
- eliasmacpherson 15y ago
  If you are going to make fun of people, make sure to read what they write carefully. Otherwise you might make yourself to look less intelligent than you are. It's not persuasive to try to make out that the person you have a disagreement with is crazy. Andi really didn't write what you say he did, and he certainly didn't write "anti-technological arguments about expecting technical solutions to problems as being a "religion"." in one comment or multiple other comments. It's really pointless to try and put words into people's mouths like that. I'll take your admission about how you 'made fun of a guy' as you agreeing that is no forced binary choice to be made between living as luddites, and ignoring the cost of nuclear reactors for nature and future generations.
  - berntb 15y ago
    Sigh, I have only myself to blame if I let myself be trolled by an account with karma 50.
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berntb 15y ago

>> You've made few if any valid arguments I made fun of a guy that wrote anti-technological arguments about expecting technical solutions to problems as being a "religion". The guy wrote the same thing in multiple other comments. You call me on that -- and write WALLS of text, insisting that the first comment was only about nuclear tech and that the other comments (note, pluralis) are irrelevant for other unlikely reasons. If you didn't put time into writing well, I'd be certain you're a troll. So congratulations, you got another comment out of me. I must assume that is your motivation into writing possible explanations for what "Andi" really means, when he wrote the same thing multiple times.

eliasmacpherson 15y ago
If you are going to make fun of people, make sure to read what they write carefully. Otherwise you might make yourself to look less intelligent than you are. It's not persuasive to try to make out that the person you have a disagreement with is crazy. Andi really didn't write what you say he did, and he certainly didn't write "anti-technological arguments about expecting technical solutions to problems as being a "religion"." in one comment or multiple other comments. It's really pointless to try and put words into people's mouths like that. I'll take your admission about how you 'made fun of a guy' as you agreeing that is no forced binary choice to be made between living as luddites, and ignoring the cost of nuclear reactors for nature and future generations.
- berntb 15y ago
  Sigh, I have only myself to blame if I let myself be trolled by an account with karma 50.
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