That's not the way I read the original use of "criminal," but that's a legitimate argument to make. The thing to do would have been to say something like "I ag

That's not the way I read the original use of "criminal," but that's a legitimate argument to make. The thing to do would have been to say something like "I agree with you denotatively, but disagree with your connotations," and explain why. Not to fight debate drift with more debate drift.