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Re:The U.S. wants to dump 1.5 tons of rat poison pellets on ... by weberc2 on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:44PM (#20443828)
It's implied by the context of the thread. The subject is "ignorant reactionaries". No one has challenged that characterization, so we're left assuming that the commenter is arguing that "ignorant reactionaries" are equivalent to "healthy skeptics".
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Re:The U.S. wants to dump 1.5 tons of rat poison pellets on ... by rosser on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:45PM (#20443834)
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. [0]

It is less plausible to me that a caution towards "healthy" skepticism is advocating some kind of utter credulity, than that it is doing exactly what it calls for: cautioning towards skepticism.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:The U.S. wants to dump 1.5 tons of rat poison pellets on ... by hombre_fatal on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:09PM (#20444080)
The OP specifically was condemning ignorant reactionaries. Responding with "but skepticism is good" is a defense of ignorant reactionaries. Otherwise, it's the responder's responsibility to enlist further clarification instead of what can only be interpreted as dismissal + "/s" snark.

I mean, we all can agree with "healthy skepticism is good." So was their post just an in-passing reminder unrelated to this thread? I charitably interpreted their post to be a response to the comment they replied to rather than an independent platitude.

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