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• dataker 11y ago
  Still an Ad Hominem attack https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Graham%27s_Hierarchy_of_Disagreement-en.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Graham%2...
  • Nacraile 11y ago
    In all seriousness, how are you supposed to "refute the central point" when the central point appears to be an anti-semitic conspiracy theory? How do you construct a reasoned, evidence backed counter-argument to an absurd, evidence-free belief? How do you prove a negative? (How do you reason a man out of a position he didn't reason himself into?)
    • dataker 11y ago
      You ignore and/or downvote
    • auntienomen 11y ago
      How do you construct a reasoned, evidence backed counter-argument to an absurd, evidence-free belief? One answer is that you fight stupid with stupid. See for example, Ali G winning an argument with a creationist by asking him, "OK, has you ever eaten a banana?" But, on HN, ignore and downvote. Stupid isn't welcome.