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Just passing the ball? Yeah, I'd consider that + using a throwaway to be a set of circumstances that don't merit a response at all. ;)

I've already made my points several times. If you don't engage on the concrete arguments and are trying to be vaguely argumentative without substance then you're kind of polluting the replies.

Here's what should be a food for thought for you.




Okay, and the direct version is that you responded to a general and rather vague comment about a holier-than-thou community by demonstrating in highly fluent detail exactly what that looks like in practice. To attempt a persuasive argument is by definition to engage in rhetoric. In the way you did so, specifically to persuade that the concern is unfounded, you behaved precisely as you sought to argue no one does. In short, you proved beyond doubt that your opponent's claim is valid. In rhetoric, there is no more abject form of failure.

Also, you behaved quite rudely as well as counterproductively - to the point that, if I felt any investment in the Rust community, I would now be asking you please to stop trying to represent it, at least until you can do so competently enough not to embarrass those you purport to defend.

If I found I'd erred as you have, it would bother me a lot. How you handle it is, happily for me, not my problem. But now at least you can't say you've never been told.


It's amazing how much writing you do just to demonstrate how thoroughly you misread my comments and only found what you wanted to find.

You're the perfect example of biased and tunnel-visioned. Textbook example even.

Think what you will. Unfortunately for you, future readers will make up their own mind and not all will land at your defective conclusion.


I agree 100% with the post you're replying to.

Signed, - future reader


Diversity has been accounted for. Good.




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