However the initial hypothesis mentioned in the OP does rest on some points seen in popular documentaries, i.e. it's not something entirely pulled out of my sleeve while I was high on mushrooms.
Granted, I'm hardly the one with the expertise to try prove any of that wrong or right, but my point is, it is based on previously presented hypotheses (with some amount of alleged "evidence"), so I was somehow hoping that we'd focus on the implications from said hypothesis rather than the veracity of the hypothesis itself.
Surely, someone who doesn't feel like delving deeper into those implications could easily try to defeat the very hypothesis itself by stopping at the point of "Wait, first prove that this happened or I refuse to go on any further!", but I think that would be more like an attempt to torpedo the discourse in its infancy rather than trying to achieve anything constructive.
So which of those rhetorical tactics is your preference?
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Date: 5/7/11 20:36 (UTC)However the initial hypothesis mentioned in the OP does rest on some points seen in popular documentaries, i.e. it's not something entirely pulled out of my sleeve while I was high on mushrooms.
Granted, I'm hardly the one with the expertise to try prove any of that wrong or right, but my point is, it is based on previously presented hypotheses (with some amount of alleged "evidence"), so I was somehow hoping that we'd focus on the implications from said hypothesis rather than the veracity of the hypothesis itself.
Surely, someone who doesn't feel like delving deeper into those implications could easily try to defeat the very hypothesis itself by stopping at the point of "Wait, first prove that this happened or I refuse to go on any further!", but I think that would be more like an attempt to torpedo the discourse in its infancy rather than trying to achieve anything constructive.
So which of those rhetorical tactics is your preference?