[blakesley]

I agree, but it can also be true that there are so many things wrong with the points being made that it's hard to construct a response.

[lazyeye]

I would have thought this would make it easy to construct a response.

[actually_a_dog]

See the "bullshit asymmetry principle": refuting bullshit takes far more time and effort than producing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

[tptacek]

No, it doesn't! It famously doesn't! There's a whole discipline of creating arguments that are deliberately difficult to engage with or respond to: it's called "college debate".

[lazyeye]

See it alot on HN too then.