Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread

Re:Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread by samatman on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:11PM (#22539748)

It's also accepting a weak argument because of the credentials of the author. I thought that was trivially understood, but I guess not.

Which is also not what you're doing; your case appears to be that credentials are a reason to reject a sound explanation or argument, which is absurd.

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Re:Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread by senthil_rajasek on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:30PM (#22539935)

Now you are bringing in your own narrative to a dictionary definition. My case is that the parent comment seems to put credentials before a valid argument, which is what I am against. Credentials are not a proxy for a sound argument.

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Re:Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread by samatman on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:48PM (#22540109)

Dictionaries aren't weapons.

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Re:Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread by senthil_rajasek on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @08:33PM (#22541651)

Dictionaries are references to look up words before opening mouths.

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