[MD] Straw Men and the Primacy of Trust

[david buchanan]

Ian said:
 Absolutely no dmb - that phrasing just summarised Matt's post to you, so that you could see it was exactly parallel to the earlier "water off a duck's back" problem I was referring to - again based on Steve's criticisms of you. Obviously you and you attitude are now being criticised personally, even by me, because that is the subject on the table. Yes my phrasing it to you was "ad hominem", but I don't do ad hominem (as you know), so in this case I was simply showing you that this was the criticism you were receiving from others .... and ignoring, with that water off a duck's back stance - don't take the criticism seriously just turn it back on others and a form of defence and denial. My "personal" interest is simply to get MD (with you) over this rationally autistic (SOMist) hump, but we need to overcome the denial first.


dmb says:

Well, I can't make much sense of your reply. It seems you're saying "yes" that was an ad hominem attack and "no" I don't do ad hominem attacks. And so you are replying to a guy who criticizes the incomprehensibility of your clipped "sentences" and your habit of equivocation - with clipped sentences and equivocation. Doesn't that just prove my point?