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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rhialto" data-source="post: 2112233" data-attributes="member: 630">Well, sirrah, let us consider things.  Your basic arguments which you repeat ad infinitum, ad nauseum are an appeal to authority (we are not Lucas, thus we have no right to judge his work) and begging the question with various unwarranted assumptions.  You may feel it is an insult, but the fact is you are using exactly the kind of arguments used by the zealously religious to defend their faith.Serge has offered up reasons for his opinions, and argued them logically.  You have responded to his arguments by restating the same points, ignoring or misinterpeting his statements, and keeping your tone sarcastic and self-righteous.  If you consider this a valid form of debate, you are then sadly mistaken.Here, sir, you are so mistaken, that any elaborate comment on my part would constitute 'gilding the lily'.Actually, by your argument, I do not, as since by your account, the merit of all types of argument are purely subjective, and thus I can simply choose to see them as I will.  In reality, while there have been less than stellar arguments on both sides, I find the truly egregious errors in logic to fall soundly in the Lucas camp, and then stay there, like a very heavy boulder lodged in mud.</blockquote>