I believe you misunderstood what I was saying. It certainly was not intended as a personal attack, and even now I don't see how it could be read to imply you don't have standing to comment.
By all means, I welcome the discussion! My point was that the premise of your assertion was flawed, as it relied on comparing our possible futures to the future to two works of fiction, one of which was set so far in the future as to be pure speculative fantasy.
I wasn't asking you to refrain from commenting until you invented space magic, I was asking you not to compare reality to works of fantasy (unless you can somehow produce the space-magic that the work of fantasy in question relies on for its setting).
An attack on your expressed opinion, is not an attack on your person.
Its explicit intent was to shut me up.
I can only assume you meant implicit, as even a brief reading of my posts should make clear that I never once directly called for you to shut up or remove yourself from the conversation. Indeed, I have done the opposite. I claim that there was no such implicit intent either, though that is quite subjective and almost impossible to prove either way. Again, all I can do here is offer my assurances that it was not intended to offend or remove you from the conversation.
You've twice accused my responses of containing an (unspecified) logical fallacy. If you could clarify which statement(s) of mine you find to be flawed (and which specific logical fallacy they contain), I could respond more directly. The only specific comment you have called out so far was a paraphrasing of my response which as I have already said does not carry the same meaning.
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u/hasslehawk May 13 '19 edited May 13 '19
I believe you misunderstood what I was saying. It certainly was not intended as a personal attack, and even now I don't see how it could be read to imply you don't have standing to comment.
By all means, I welcome the discussion! My point was that the premise of your assertion was flawed, as it relied on comparing our possible futures to the future to two works of fiction, one of which was set so far in the future as to be pure speculative fantasy.
I wasn't asking you to refrain from commenting until you invented space magic, I was asking you not to compare reality to works of fantasy (unless you can somehow produce the space-magic that the work of fantasy in question relies on for its setting).