Why do radicals try so hard to be jerks?

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37. Wow! Now you're being radically provocative AND radically obtuse.

1) my post was clear, if you can't understand it, that's your problem.

2) you dare accuse me of making assumptions (without specifying what those assumptions are). You may think you specified those assumptions, but you didn't.

3) You also did not say in what way I went beyond the "actual argument."

4) Your "argument" was itself a provocative statement of assumptions: a) radicals are jerks, b) they try hard to be that way.

5) Regarding "taking it personally": I also made myself clear. Your "question,"Why do radicals try so hard to be jerks?" was an obvious provocation and affront to anyone who holds what you consider to be "radical" views (never, of course, stating what you mean by "radical," or why it makes them jerks to hold such views. Why would anyone holding "radical" views NOT take that personally?