Ah, yeah, that makes sense. I hadn't thought in terms of hostile argument... you see this in verbal argument sometimes, where a person rambles or says vaguely

Ah, yeah, that makes sense. I hadn't thought in terms of hostile argument... you see this in verbal argument sometimes, where a person rambles or says vaguely contradicting things to prevent themselves from alienating their fan base. Ambiguity lets people who endorse you to contort their interpretation into something they like. So I think their advocating for specificity makes sense, it helps ensure that the argument is about some _thing_ and you're not engaging with some unknown meta game that lives outside the argument itself.