On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, David Gerard wrote:
That's a more obvious dodging of the question. Â You're basically saying "I'm not going to tell you if this argument could possibly be productive", which is fundamentally dishonest.
Refusing to answer a hypothetical is hardly dishonest.
The hypothetical is "would convincing you of this actually matter?" In this case, refusing to answer it is. It's equivalent to "are you trolling" or "are you just wasting my time".