[petesergeant]

Attacking a point by attacking its supporting points is a pretty standard way of going about arguing.

[bee_rider]

Sure, but not just by contradicting arbitrary sub-sentence snippets of text devoid of context. An attack against a supporting point should be related to the way that it supports the overall argument.

[petesergeant]

It’s fully the first half of the comment rather than a few words taken out of context