[kstenerud]

Unfortunately, no. While he hasa lot of good arguments, they're drowned out by his repeated use of logical fallacies to push his point across. This long, rambling piece simply comes off as him bullying the reader into agreeing with him.

Note that I'm not saying he doesn't have valid points hidden in that wall of text, but he's certainly lacking the social skills and reader empathy to land a good argument, and as a result its too exhausting to take him seriously.

[bearjaws]

> Complains about logical fallacies

> Immediately comments with logical fallacy.

[kstenerud]

While this is obviously wrong, it does serve to illustratea point: when dealing with controversial subjects, there is a tendency towards tribalism. When you're for one "side", the other side is by definition wrong, and you must defend your "side" at all costs. Any criticism of any aspect of your side is an attack against the tribe and by extension, you. An attack requires a counterattack, and since at this point the person is engaging their amygdala, even their most incorrect statements seem completely factual and rational to them.

It makes things like editors, languages, syntactic style, and development paradigms impossible to discuss rationally and reasonably.

[bearjaws]

Did you mean to reply to me with this comment? It has nothing to do with what I said.