lavalamp comments on Politics Discussion Thread August 2012 - Less Wrong
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This is never a convincing argument...
Neither is the raw assertion it was responding to.
You could easily have said something like, "this is not obvious, please provide the evidence which caused you to believe it." FiftyTwo's statement required support, but yours sounded mindkilled. And even if your mind isn't, that sort of statement will make it extremely difficult for an average person to continue having a productive dialog with you.