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@aral Thanks, exploring and considering.

Two meta comments:

  • Link / canned response is appropriate and appreciated. It's efficient and less wearying for you, and I employ similar tactics.
  • I'm well aware how simply annoying discussion can be, especially narrow shades of disagreement within a faction or "violent disagreement".. Distinctions and tactics matter, and I suspect that these are largely what we're headbutting over, though as always I could be wrong.

I can think of several hot-take responses.

For both our sakes, to better understand your views and the sources you cite, and out of respect (I genuinely admire your work, differences entirely notwithstanding), I'm going to shut the fuck up and will probably address comments generally rather than to you, though I'll likely point you to them later. That seems to usually help reduce the role of personality, almost always the least interesting aspects of such exchanges.

Thanks for your time and thoughts, again, sincerely.