> you're attacking elements of the post which aren't the core of the argument This is also trivially disproved, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?

> you're attacking elements of the post which aren't the core of the argument This is also trivially disproved, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31008817 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31008817 > they're attempts to make the argument cogent to you (which obviously failed) I'm really uninterested in the justifications for introducing ad-hominem argumentation -- which, to be clear, rapidly devolved into attacks.