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If you are not going to get into it then consider commenting when you are ready. I find it bullying behavior when you put down a person, establish yourself as expert but refuse to provide why is it that way. This is not to say OP was correct but he is likely lousy or just informal in all academic meanings of the word that you probably understand deeply that general public likely don’t care because they focus on practical meaning or the meaning as applicable to usual encounters ignoring outliers. For instance, one can make statement that “terrorist are evil” but you can write 10,000 words academic essay on why it is not that way citing hundred outliers and perspectives from other side. This doesn’t give you power to put down a person calling him non-expert and questioning everything else they said because in general public encounter that statement has meaning that is well understood without academic idiosyncrasies.


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