[philman_36]

If sources are routinely ignored by your side in this discussion, why should I make the effort to cite them?

I haven't ignored any of your sources as is evident in the course of this conversation. Perhaps you don't cite sources because they are quickly picked apart for the pablum they are as soon as they are posted.

I actually think I waste too much time arguing with people who are completely unpersuadable, and all I get from tracking down and posting sources is nothing.
You post far more of your own opinions than sources, as is evidenced by the rest of your reply to me.

[DiogenesLamp]

I haven't ignored any of your sources as is evident in the course of this conversation. Perhaps you don't cite sources because they are quickly picked apart for the pablum they are as soon as they are posted.

Dismissed without appropriate consideration.

You post far more of your own opinions than sources, as is evidenced by the rest of your reply to me.

Sure. It takes less time, and the result is the same anyway. I don't live, eat and breath this stuff the way you advocates do. I consider this one of the more stupid discussions in which I bother to engage, and the fact that I don't really consider it worth my time tends to show through in my responses.

I've been arguing it for seven years with another nutbag I know on a different website. You get to a point where you just don't care to put out the effort to once again prove someone wrong with complicated references to statistics and studies because they are just going to be ignored anyway.

Adherents to the Church of the Green Weed will not have their faith shaken by anything so mundane as reality. If the simple and easy to understand stuff like this doesn't work ...

Then what point is there in putting forth more complicated arguments or more complicated facts?