Robin, I'm disappointed in you. I expected the man who said that he liked to "beat hard on new ideas, seek out critics, and then pledge my allegiance only to those still left standing" to be willing to look at a flaw in his own. What I have seen in your past few emails has been quite the opposite.

I offered you at least seven explanations of the point. I bent over backwards to cast them in terms that you could understand. If I do say so myself, they were clear, concise, compelling. You treated them contemptuously. In no case did you make a respectable answer. The only time you deigned to address any one of them, your answer was pure circular reasoning. Your responses repeatedly appeared as if you had no more than lightly skimmed what I wrote. You assumed as given points that I had just disputed.

In your last email, you demanded that the argument be cast into a form that simply missed the whole point. You also said "I honestly doubt you understand what information means". That's insulting and completely baseless. I want an apology.

You're not willing to dispute my point reasonably. That's a shame.

You are of course allowed to behave in this way. Nobody's going to force you to be reasonable. But you need to hear this: You have a serious blind spot about this issue.