The problem is that the removal of what you call "obvious exaggeration" and "figure of speech" completely changes the meaning of the phrase and transforms the author's position from reasonable to unreasonable.
That's called a strawman. Yeah, it's very easy to do and very convenient to knock out, and I hope you had fun doing so, but you didn't really address the author's real position here, as much as you insist that you just removed "figure of speech".
About the "dragging me to court on trumped charges" part, oh, the irony. That's exactly what YOU are doing. :)
I’m always up for a productive discussion, but there are two paragraphs of text before the one you’re childishly replying to, which you dishonestly chose to ignore in order to make a childish personal attack. Just like you chose to ignore the qualifiers written in the article in your original post. Sorry, but you don't get to cry foul and say you're being "dragged to court" when you're caught misquoting and then misrepresenting someone's position with a strawman. Either be honest or accept someone calling you out.
If you're really asking for an arguments: the fact you had to edit the quote should be enough clue that the original statement wasn't as clear cut as you're portraying. The fact people disagreed with you (with downvotes or comments) should also point to that. Maybe take a second to consider that you were uncharitable to the author and they're not as stupid and as extremist as you're painting them.
Once again you chose to selectively ignore most of the message and edit it to focus on a part you can use to paint me in the worse possible light. Similar to how you did with your original post. Your only tactic in this discussion is to selectively quote people to make them look worse. You are indeed acting like a child in this discussion.
And, no: that’s not a personal attack, as I’m talking about your acts, not yourself.
Once again I’m up for any discussion, but that won’t matter as you ignore anything that can’t be used to make your interlocutor look stupid. You sir haven’t argued in good faith. You began this whole thing with a bad faith misquote, and when you couldn’t do it anymore you began to cry foul, while at the same time criticizing me for doing so. And that’s the only thing you’ve done so far: acting in bad faith.
really? beacuse it appears from the last six or so messages you're only interested in dissecting words, ignoring whatever meaning is therein contained, and you're only available to debate the single topic that you picked, which today appears to be wether making summaries is allowed or not while presenting an argument, and are prepared to just diss and dismiss anything unless it falls exactly in your extremely narrow debate window.
That's called a strawman. Yeah, it's very easy to do and very convenient to knock out, and I hope you had fun doing so, but you didn't really address the author's real position here, as much as you insist that you just removed "figure of speech".
About the "dragging me to court on trumped charges" part, oh, the irony. That's exactly what YOU are doing. :)