Re:The Amazon Is Not the 'Lungs of the World'
by RealityVoid on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @07:53AM
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While I appreciate your sentiment and in principle agree with you, I have a hard time arguing points of people who do not argue in good faith. And it does seem like the author is trying to persuade more than he is trying to make a logical and/or correct point.
Re:The Amazon Is Not the 'Lungs of the World'
by rand0mbits on Friday August 30, 2019 @10:13AM
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He didn't dismiss the article out of hand. He debunked its points and then pointed out that the author seems to have an unstated agenda.
The article he has written is worth discussing, and by dismissing it out of hand because of your politics you are adding to the problem.
We're supposed to be intelligent people on HN. Let's discuss ideas, not who or who not might be trolls. A "troll" who has genuine and substantiative ideas backed by facts aren't trolls IMO, so by focussing on the content the trolls get weeded out anyway.