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Re:How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral by caconym_ on Thursday February 06, 2020 @01:12AM (#22253802)
My freakish psychic powers.

Seriously, though, if you don't think the distinction between attacks on arguments and attacks on people is at all meaningful or useful, we're 100% done here. That last bit is a bonus; feel free to read it and take what you want from it, or not.

Til next time.

Re:How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral by tomlockwood on Thursday February 06, 2020 @01:18AM (#22253829)
It isn't useful for setting some objective metric by which arguments can be judged because people commonly disagree on what category an argument falls into.