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> Perhaps humans are well-defined, but are the OP's requirements so well defined?

And that would be a good and insightful question and make an interesting discussion. Posting a two word comment like "Define human." without substantiating it as if the two words are supposed to communicate something very clever is not! It is lazy and presumptuous.

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Agreed.

Much like your response, but yet you did it anyhow

>> It is lazy and presumptuous.

> Much like your response, but yet you did it anyhow

Their initial response was not lazy.

And how do you not be presumptuous in response to such a vague two word comment? A Rorschach test is not a good way to communicate.

>>Their initial response was not lazy. Yes it was, it didn't consider what could have been meant and instead of asking they presumed the worse and attacked. Yes the initial comment was short, but also a very valid question even if it was lazy as well. If one wants to critisise, it should not be done by doing the same as what the criticism is about...in my opinion of course

They didn't presume the worst. They called it a bad comment because it's a fast dismissal that also basically forces you to presume to get any meaning from it. The two words reference a handful of arguments, specify none, and don't make a case for anything.

Not wanting to play "guess the deeper argument" is not laziness. And they wrote a perfectly reasonable length response to get across their entire point, which is also not lazy.

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