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In my opinion, and that's all it is, unless you are in a place where OC is normal and accepted, you are a poser and a wannabe if you OC. I'm being honest here. If I see you walking down the street in Seattle OCing thats the thought going thru my mind. If I see the same thing in Wenatchee or Omak I'm barely noticing.
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Saying "you are a poser and a wannabe" is claiming a matter of fact. It's no different from saying on the flip side "if you are walking down the street of X and are concealing your gun you are ashamed of your gun and halfway to being an anti".
Both are cases of assuming the other person's motives in the absence of evidence.
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The available evidence is a guy walking down the street with a clearly visible firearm in a place where such a thing is just not done.
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That is only evidence that a person is carrying openly. It is
not evidence of motive. You
assume the motive.
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As to whether you will argue or not; you've been arguing exactly what you say you are not arguing. You have been doing it for a few hours now. In repeated posts.
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Not quite. I thought you had some interest in having a
valid position and not just making derogatory statements about people who disagree with you.
If you have any interest in discussing the actual issue and dealing with people's
real motives (rather than what you just assume, despite being told otherwise, are their motives) we can do that. If instead, you're "my mind is made up, don't confuse me with anything that doesn't fit my comfortable world view" then, yeah, it's time to end this.