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		EvilTerran on March 28, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jessamyn Smith: Fighting sexist jokes with a Pytho... Er, the poster who replied to you (wpietri) is a different account from the one you replied to (unalone). Also, now you're engaging in vacuous sophistry - you've made an assertion of wrongdoing without backing it up, and yet neither of them could reply here to defend themselves without seeming to dig deeper into the hole you insist they're in, because "oh look more 'rational' arguments".

pjscott on March 28, 2012 [–]

I think the technical term for this is a "fully general counterargument": one that can argue equally well for true and false ideas.

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