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just to say this, ace, when i find myself qualifying a position you outline as absurd, it's not about you as a person but about the position. obviously, using words like absurd creates problems for that separation, both for myself and you and for other folk who read the posts. i feel like we've been fencing long enough that you would understand as much, but maybe this is a good time to remind you and myself of this.
the persistent explanation for talking past each other is that there's no agreement on framework.
given that a framework is what allows one to define variables, see relations between them and assign importance or weight, if there's no agreement about framework there won't be agreement about anything else.
maybe at some point we'll figure out how to get around this, but for the moment it seems like that's where things are stuck.
but it's not personal, for what it's worth.
i'll try to ramp back my writing a bit so that fact is clearer.
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