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I didn't ask you to prove it, I asked if you could because you were making statements implying that you could. Or it was obvious that you were assuming it was true, when there's no particularly good reason to.

I also helpfully even rephrased it, in a way to make it abundantly clear what my point was:

We have almost no information about the emerald mine, how big it was, how profitable it was, how many people worked there.

Do you see how that's useful? I say something, point out why it might be important, and then rephrase it to make sure that it's clear what I'm trying to say (and what I'm not trying to). I'm not relying on insults, I'm not moving the goal posts, or jumping from one point to the other randomly. I'm making it clear when I'm not 100% sure about something, and I'm asking you about your reasons to believe what you're saying.

Most importantly I'm not trying to strawman you, I'm not telling you what your argument should be, or forcing you to defend something ridiculous.

This is what a constructive discussion looks like. It's called the principle of charity, I'm trying to interpret your claims in the best way possible, I'm not trying to make you out to be a bad person, I'm not saying you're the only idiot that believes these things when no one else does. I'm not being flippant.

I'm just pointing out that even taking everything you've said, that there's any evidence for, and taking it in the strongest possible light, it doesn't seem to be enough to convince a reasonable person that Errol's wealth really had any meaningful impact on Zip2 or anything that came after that.

It's not an argument I find convincing, and insulting me doesn't make it sound more convincing.

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