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> I don't think the evidence we have is reliable enough to call someone "wildly misinformed" or "intentionally misleading", though.

Perhaps not. However, my original challenge to rayiner's comment has produced far more meaningful and mostly-cited comments. Could it have been less inflammatory? Absolutely. Would it have produced this discussion if it had been? Uncertain.

The original comment did not add any value to the post. I have never read Orrin Kerr's writings and both of you citing him caused me to do so.

Perhaps citing Kerr in the original comment, as he has well regarded opinions on the subject, would have been additive as I assume rayiner intended to be.

After all, if we don't challenge for citation and additional information, what are we doing here?




I agree with all of this, but it would be nice if the decorum rules on HN included begging pardon or even apologizing in a case like this. At the very least, when you make an inflammatory claim about someone else in a thread, notice and acknowledge when it's refuted.




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