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1. I'm not discussing your particular argument, rather your overall style. Anyone interested in the whole text probably already has seen it.
2. Anyone interested in taking direct orders from you, or stylistic criticism, is welcome to. However, you are cordially invited to bite my peasant behind in a religious manner.
3. Making assumptions in a theory is one thing, publishing them as a theory of what reality is or does is an assertion. Accusing my thought processes of being subject to my selfish gene is an assertion. Labeling my side of the argument a religious one rather than scientific is an assertion.
4. Reading over my shoulder an hour after your bedtime is going to get your butt kicked.
5. Dismissing review of your theory by labeling the critic a 'peasant' is an ad hominem. You're not interested in feedback to your screed if there's any way to convince yourself the feedback provider can be discredited or ignored.

Who was that idiot, Mac? With the miscegenation theory based on observing goony birds?
He wouldn't discuss anyone else's opinion on interracial theories until he found out what their race and marital status was. If you supported interracial marriage, and were in such a relationship, he could dismiss your arguments because you were biased. If you supported it, and were not in such a relationship, obviously you weren't committed enough to it, so he could dismiss your arguments as well. If you agreed with him, that it was a bad thing, then he didn't seem to care.
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