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I don't believe you based on your inability to entertain a simple argument made by me.
What I said is congruent with my behavior. But it's not congruent with what you need me to be to justify your actions, so you make stuff up.
When your conclusions are the exact opposite of what I wrote, they can't be drawn from believing what I said. So why ask me to explain myself if you already have a view of me that you wont change?
No. I just wanted you to engage with what I said, given you replied to me.
If you bother replying to each and every denier argument, but never address any of the arguments specifically, but always just assert that you think the holocaust happened, and that holocaust denial is like low brow conspiracy theories, then your replies are not serious and instead just exemplifying the typical attitude I described in my first comment.
I did no such thing. I made a single argument relating to the holocaust in specific based on the problem of Dachau and eyewitness testimony.
That's not the argument I made. But you would need that to be the case for your position to make any sense, so you just make this stuff up. I know you are saying that, in total, the holocaust happened. And I'm saying, I don't care what you believe in total. It's not relevant at all to the argument I made. I already mentioned that most people don't evaluate the evidence, but instead just accept the entire narrative and then reinforce their belief based on the idea that all of it must be true. You obviously do that, you obviously don't look at individual pieces of evidence, instead relying on the historical narrative as a narrative rather than an investigation into reality. I think that's very obviously uncritical and faulty reasoning but whatever.
I find that your position is based on not engaging with specific pieces of evidence but instead on believing that the narrative is true. If you can point me to any part of your comments in this chain which doesn't do that, feel free. You can certainly say you believe in the thing because this and that, but in practice and word you have not done it here.
After maintaining you have engaged with the argument, you now admit you have not.
Somehow, in your mind, insinuating that eyewitness testimony is not a great piece of evidence, supported by an instance where a lot of people in a concentration camp lied about intentional killings after being liberated, is just a rhetorical diversion. But maintaining that, actually, the argument was all along whether or not the entire holocaust happened is "the argument" is not a rhetorical diversion...
This looks like transparent projection. Your frame for this topic always needs to be the entire holocaust, the sum. Because your principle for belief is that it's already all true. If you can't point to it all being true to support your belief you have nothing.
This is typical of your argumentation, taking one statement in response to one thing ("I'm not indulging in your rhetorical diversions") and trying to misapply it ("Hah! See! You just admitted you don't even engage with my arguments!")
Basically, most of your posts, when I bother to respond to you, are a bunch of "Nuh uhs!" and "No yous" and projection. Hell, you even throw "projection" at me after engaging in massive projection - which is par for the course. You're verbose enough to write like you're making cold hard arguments, but it's all "Nuh uh" and "No you." Not impressive for someone who objects to his views being treated as low-status.
You haven't responded to the original contention made, instead you go through this pointless rigamarole of sneering and insinuations and then try to leverage those as a thing when it's just the longest form of ad hom possible.
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