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One is responsible for the assertions made. If you are unable to support your assertion with either
evidence or logic, then the assertion needs to be modified or retracted. Also, the citations are up
for grabs too. If the citation is dubious in its nature or source then it too can be discredited.
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If someone makes a point, they have to be willing to provide a citation if asked. Otherwise it could
be that the information has been made up on the spot or the person hasn't really researched the
topic that thoroughly.
However, if you state that what another person has said is untrue, you yourself have to provide your
own citation to prove your own point, not ask the other person to provide evidence against it. |
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If you throw out unresearched assertions without citations of your own to back them up, then demand
that other people go and do the research required to refute them, and demand citations from them
when they do, then yes, you are asking other people to go and do your research for you. You have a
track record of doing this.
Unfortunately, the more you do it, the less seriously people will take you as a debater. Debates
based on serious research from each side can be rewarding and enriching. But if you're just throwing
random stuff out there without a clue, then you don't deserve to be taken seriously.
And making that remark isn't a rant. Like many cultists whose utterly conventional yet often
ill-formed ideas are being challenged, you abuse the word rant to mean anyone expressing a
disagreement with you. The word has a specific meaning. Why don't you go and "research" what it is? |
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20 May 2008 17:00
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