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> You make a lot of assertions, should I expect you to substantiate any of them? If you disagree, then make an argument. Don't pester people with questions. >

> You make a lot of assertions, should I expect you to substantiate any of them? If you disagree, then make an argument. Don't pester people with questions. > Says who? You did a study? So you are giving up mind-reading for just outright conjecture, okay! Isolated demand for rigor. You asserted without evidence that obscuring plates cause accidents, yet demand evidence when I make the common knowledge observation that texting while driving leads to accidents. Look, this is an internet forum, not an academic journal. If your only response is to demand empirical evidence there isn't anywhere for this conversation to go. > They aren't mutually exclusive. You don't really seem to get it. I didn't say they were mutually exclusive, just providing an alternative explanation. In the case of the driver from the article, given that he had already racked up thousands of dollars in fines before obscuring his plated, it is hard for me to imagine that he would feel anymore emboldened after. It sounds to me like he was just a bad driver.

freejazz 4y ago
>If you disagree, then make an argument. Don't pester people with questions. The questions are the argument. They are the problems in your position that you have not answered that would be required for them to work. I don't need to offer up another alternatively entirely to make the cogent point that your assertion fails. This is just common sense. I have no idea why this needs to be explained to you. >Isolated demand for rigor. You asserted without evidence that obscuring plates cause accidents, yet demand evidence when I make the common knowledge observation that texting while driving leads to accidents. Well you dismissed my point just as readily... it's obnoxious, isn't it? > Look, this is an internet forum, not an academic journal Weird point from the guy demanding a sort of rigor about this whole situation that is so beyond the application of common sense I'm left a little bit confused as to what point you'd ever think you were making that wasn't merely academic.

freejazz 4y ago

>If you disagree, then make an argument. Don't pester people with questions. The questions are the argument. They are the problems in your position that you have not answered that would be required for them to work. I don't need to offer up another alternatively entirely to make the cogent point that your assertion fails. This is just common sense. I have no idea why this needs to be explained to you. >Isolated demand for rigor. You asserted without evidence that obscuring plates cause accidents, yet demand evidence when I make the common knowledge observation that texting while driving leads to accidents. Well you dismissed my point just as readily... it's obnoxious, isn't it? > Look, this is an internet forum, not an academic journal Weird point from the guy demanding a sort of rigor about this whole situation that is so beyond the application of common sense I'm left a little bit confused as to what point you'd ever think you were making that wasn't merely academic.