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Would you care to summarize the evidence?
Well I also talked about the political issue too, correct?
Have you ever known me not to engage with anyone who asserts I have acted in a contradictory way?
Yes. See here :-)
I don't know -- I haven't paid that much attention. But are you saying you're entirely free of contradictions..?
Ok, so this piece of evidence is equally consistent with my caring primarily about the political issue.
Then this piece of evidence isn't so great either. See below.
Nope, but I have a strong tendency to engage with anyone who makes such an assertion. Mainly because I'm an argumentative person and also somewhat vain, but also because there is a chance I will learn something useful.
In any event, the point is that the fact that I am having this exchange is not evidence of my caring either way -- I argue with pretty much anyone who asserts that my position is contradictory.
The evidence, of course is weak. But then I have a fairly strong prior which says that someone who is "an argumentative person and also somewhat vain" will care about proxies for respect and status -- such as karma -- more than about political possibly-issues at a forum he does not frequent any more.
When did you become confident that I was an argumentative person and also somewhat vain?
The argumentativeness was always visible, as to "vain", your previous comment was very convenient :-) but you never looked like you were indifferent to your image.
Ok, so let's see if I have your argument straight:
Someone who is argumentative and not indifferent to his image probably cares a great deal about his karma score, to the point where even weak evidence leads to a high degree of confidence that a complaint which relates to karma is primarily due to his concern for his karma score per se and no other considerations.
Does that pretty much sum it up?
No, not quite. Would you like to extract the straw you stuffed into that paragraph and try again?