If I didn’t reply to you here, what would you assume from that? That I didn’t have a response? That I didn’t see your response? That I agreed with you? That I disagreed but didn’t think it was worth the effort to continue the discussion because there really no way to change your mind given you dismissed me out of hand?

For what it’s worth, I debated initially commenting at all because I thought it was unlikely to be productive. I’m sure I’m not the only person who considered this (sheer numbers in this case make that unlikely) and they made the choice not to.