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You're missing the point. You made an unsubstantiated claim, and then you demanded an argument that it's impossible for your unsubstantiated claim to be true. I
by lapcat 2y ago
You're missing the point. You made an unsubstantiated claim, and then you demanded an argument that it's impossible for your unsubstantiated claim to be true. I agree with the reply that this is a totally unreasonable demand.
The burden of proof is on you to provide evidence for your unsubstantiated claim. The burden is not on everyone else to disprove it.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoIt doesn’t matter who anyone believes the burden falls on… that’s my point. Edit: If there’s no desire to write anything, there’s no force chaining your hands to the keyboard… and even if there was, no other user is obligated to do this or that.
- lapcat 2y ago> I’m not requesting anyone to reply to me nor prove anything to me I mean... everyone can see that this claim is false. Earlier: > So can you actually write the argument here? > That supposedly proves it’s impossible for A to have affected B… even with 6 degrees of seperation… That was a request for a reply and a proof. Of course nobody has to accede to your request, but it's undeniable that you made a request.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoHuh it does sound like that in retrospect, so I edited the comment to remove the offending sentence. At the time of writing it was meant to be a rhetorical question, since it seemed extremely unlikely for there to have been any such argument or implication in the blog post referenced. But my point still stands, it simply doesn’t matter because HN users can’t place any kind of mandatory obligations on one another.