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Interesting point. Every 7 years, all the Jewish farmers in upstate New York and Long Island have to either leave their lands fallow or lease them out to non-Jews. Clearly that's what's shaking up the market.


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In all seriousness, how are you supposed to "refute the central point" when the central point appears to be an anti-semitic conspiracy theory? How do you construct a reasoned, evidence backed counter-argument to an absurd, evidence-free belief? How do you prove a negative? (How do you reason a man out of a position he didn't reason himself into?)


How do you construct a reasoned, evidence backed counter-argument to an absurd, evidence-free belief?

One answer is that you fight stupid with stupid. See for example, Ali G winning an argument with a creationist by asking him, "OK, has you ever eaten a banana?"

But, on HN, ignore and downvote. Stupid isn't welcome.


You ignore and/or downvote




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