Basic reasoning would allow one to conclude I wasn't attempting to persuade anybody. The person I replied to didn't provide anything other than his own emotiona

Basic reasoning would allow one to conclude I wasn't attempting to persuade anybody. The person I replied to didn't provide anything other than his own emotional screed in which he accused the article's author, and people who support the author's points, of being emotional, pretty much without basis. Like you have done to me, for example. I don't see anybody "getting worked up" over anything. I see accusations of such from people, such as yourself, attempting to cast disagreement with his comment as coming from a basis of emotion rather than reason in an attempt to poison the well. Don't admonish people to not abandon basic reasoning when you yourself have done so. It's petty.