So what? We're going to derail an entire point because a gaff was made and everyone still understands the argument?
It's worth pointing out, but not worth derailing an entire conversation. It generates noise that prevents us from actually discussing the issues at hand. We're people, not computers. We can handle mistakes (and look how much work we put into computers to make them do this). And this thread blew up, you aren't the first to point it out. So forgive me if I'm a bit exhausted.[0]
I've made several mistakes (including the first blackstone link not pasting and pasting the whole comment instead of the specific part I was responding to (thanks firefox)), and so have you, and others. But let's not make the conversation about that. We'll never get shit done. We can take an aside to resolve any confusion, but it is an aside. Clearly by your explanation here you understood the point. And clearly we know that the number itself is arbitrary. Are we gonna shit talk everything Franklin said because he used 100 instead of Blackstone's original 10? No, because the number isn't what's consequential.
[0] We do meet each other here a lot and I have respect for you. It's why I'll take the time to respond to you. But I also know you to be better than this. I think you can also understand why it can be exhausting to be overloaded with responses and with a large number of people trying to tear down my argument by things that are not actually important to the argument. Specifically when the complaints make it clear that the correct interpretation was actually found. I'm happy to correct and appreciate mistakes being pointed out, but too many internet conversations just get derailed this way. The distinction of correcting vs derailing is critical, and the subsequent emotional response is clearly different in the two cases.
I'm happy to continue the conversation w.r.t the actual topic (even where we disagree), but it seems like wasted time to argue over a gaff that we both know was made and we understand what was said despite this.
It's worth pointing out, but not worth derailing an entire conversation. It generates noise that prevents us from actually discussing the issues at hand. We're people, not computers. We can handle mistakes (and look how much work we put into computers to make them do this). And this thread blew up, you aren't the first to point it out. So forgive me if I'm a bit exhausted.[0]
I've made several mistakes (including the first blackstone link not pasting and pasting the whole comment instead of the specific part I was responding to (thanks firefox)), and so have you, and others. But let's not make the conversation about that. We'll never get shit done. We can take an aside to resolve any confusion, but it is an aside. Clearly by your explanation here you understood the point. And clearly we know that the number itself is arbitrary. Are we gonna shit talk everything Franklin said because he used 100 instead of Blackstone's original 10? No, because the number isn't what's consequential.
[0] We do meet each other here a lot and I have respect for you. It's why I'll take the time to respond to you. But I also know you to be better than this. I think you can also understand why it can be exhausting to be overloaded with responses and with a large number of people trying to tear down my argument by things that are not actually important to the argument. Specifically when the complaints make it clear that the correct interpretation was actually found. I'm happy to correct and appreciate mistakes being pointed out, but too many internet conversations just get derailed this way. The distinction of correcting vs derailing is critical, and the subsequent emotional response is clearly different in the two cases.
I'm happy to continue the conversation w.r.t the actual topic (even where we disagree), but it seems like wasted time to argue over a gaff that we both know was made and we understand what was said despite this.