You behaved in a way that predictable annoyed gwern.

It certainly wasn't predicted by me. If your point is that asking people to clarify their position will predictably annoy them, and that's a standard norm here, and that if I want to avoid annoying people, one step to accomplish that would be to not ask people to clarify their statements, well, that really doesn't sound like a discussion board I have much interest in participating in.

I don't care very much about whether or not to apply the word "rude" to that behavior.

Then why did you bring it up? You said "The interesting thing is that you don't perceive your own behavior in this case to be rude."

Basically you still fail to understand what I'm arguing. Nothing less, nothing more.

If you have no concern for whether you are understood, why are you posting? If you are concerned, why do you not try to correct your failure to communicate what you are saying?

Confirmations of past predictions are in their nature not surprising.

Then they are not evidence on which one can make a conclusion. Your conclusion came from some other piece of evidence.

A good Christian doesn't sins because God is an authority in which he trusts and God put out rules that the Christian isn't supposed to do certain things.

And the Christian conflates moral obligation with divine command.

Buddhist thought doesn't have a God that does things like that.

What difference does God make? God puts out rules, karma puts out rules. God can say "should" all He wants, but those are irrelevant until someone adopts the "I should follow God" rule. Christians follow the rules that they believe God has put forth because they believe that they have a moral obligation to do so, and that moral obligation can't come from God, because if it did come from God, it would just be another one of God's rules, and what reason would anyone have to follow the "You should follow Me" rule?

If you jump up gravity pulls you down but that has nothing to do with you having an obligation to be near the ground. Buddhist karma is supposed to work just the same.

I don't believe that Buddhists believe that karma is simply an arbitrary rule that doesn't reflect morality.

You are not correcting the error of frequently wanting to be an asshole towards other people.

"Error" refers to actions, not to emotions.

If I think about what outcome I want to achieve based on enlightened self interest and pick the actions that leads to that outcome I don't have to let myself be ruled by my System 1.

But that would, in my understanding of what you're saying, not be being authentic.