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Date: 2018-02-21 04:27 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] calimac
It doesn't matter if it's definitive or not. It exists, and you don't rebut it with something that doesn't address it. Its arguments are not somehow diluted by the existence of other ideas on the subject.

Your argument was that there are weakness in the ecological collapse theory. My reply is that there exists a stronger version of that theory. You already knew this, so I shouldn't even have had to point that out.

Date: 2018-02-21 07:14 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] zotz
It doesn't sound like there's a version of this conversation that we're both interested in having. Your insistence on Diamond's version in particular strikes me as missing in the point completely, and it sounds like I'm coming across roughly the same to you.

Date: 2018-02-21 11:38 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] calimac
What I realize now that I didn't before is that "version" is the wrong word. It implies a connection. The only connection is the topic.

It's like this. Something happened on Rapa Nui. Everybody and their brother has a theory as to why. Some of those theories are flimsy. That's your point. Some of them are not. That's my point.

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