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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gorgon Zee" data-source="post: 9474851" data-attributes="member: 75787">The issue is that the argument being proposed IS that they are an authority. It’s pretty much impossible to discuss the particulars without falling foul of the rules about addressing content, not personalities, but I’m not seeing many arguments; just statements of the form “in my previous writings”, “in my experience”, “I have previously argued”, etc.To me, this is appeal to authority. To which a valid response is to challenge that statement of authority. I join you in not caring who has “authority”. But I do care if people assume a false authority simply to win an argument. If we had been presented an  argument with logic, with better citation than statements like “I once heard someone say that TATTERS is trash”, I would have been happy to engage. But that hasn’t happened.But enough. I can’t imagine this tangent is of interest to anyone anymore. I’ll shut up.</blockquote>