All very good points. Though it must be suggested that this works both ways. If someone chooses to make inflammatory hyperbolic statements in the first place, any one of these options could be expected to occur in return.
If you don't find the argument compelling, I have failed to sell it to you in the marketplace of ideas and you remain free to reject it for any reason. I could not reasonably argue that you deny free speech coz you're not engaging with the argument. That is the point.
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Ok. Oddly the irony of you not making the thesis clear enough to me because I thought it was about something different proving your point in a way not withstanding.

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It's beyond my capabilities to make an argument any clearer than that. We stated the thesis, defined terms, identified two misconceptions & then went into detail about why they were with analogies to clarify. You can, of course, reject on lack of clarity but that's all I've got.
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You are the buyer and you can reject my product and pick another which argues something different or makes the same argument better. If enough people do this, we lose in the marketplace of ideas to something else and that's how it should be.
End of conversation
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