Okay, child, I've already crushed you. There is no way around logical fallacies, no matter how hard you weasel. You fail, simply on presentation, and that is irrevokable. You do not understand debate. This is an irrefutable fact, simply based on how you present yourself.
Let me explain debate to you. In debate, the better argument wins. In debate, an argument in favor of **** genocide can and often does win against one in opposition. Debates are based entirely on presentation, and your presentation is flawed for the 9 factual reasons I listed. Therefore, you are done, you have nothing left to say. Do you want me to do that to you again? I will.
You listed a "fact," but presented it like a fool. There is no Allness, that is fundamentally true no matter what, no matter how, no matter when. By saying that gil buying hurts every legitimate player, you lose. I stand here before you as a legitimate player who is not hurt by gil buying, and there are many more in this topic, therefore your "fact" is disproven. Completely, utterly, now and forever. If you ever so much as try to say this again, you are just humiliating yourself to an unrealistic degree.
I am a legitimate player. I am not hurt by gil buying. Your Allness "fact" is permanently null and void. It's done. Gone. Goodbye. That is an actual fact. Your case is through.
You're done, there's nothing left of you. Your entire case is founded in fallacy, so no matter how much "fact" you try to present, you are going to lose the debate. It's absolutely true to the ends of the earth. Debating is all presentation, 100%. I'm debating, so I'm destroying you. You, although you have a point (that I acknowledged repeatedly, long ago, before you even replied), have no presentation. You are unfounded.
Allow me to point the fallacies in your post out. You can ignore them if you want, but they're the true ettiquette of debate, and if you disobey, you lose. Consider this a lecture. And I'm not going to include Allness, you already know how rampantly guilty of that one you are.
Fallacy #1: Slothful Induction. This is where, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the conclusion is denied. I systematically dismantled your entire ability to debate, and you ignored it and went back to the same one note you've been using all along. I don't need to disprove your fact (a fact that I have acknowledged), because I have disproven your entire writing style and foundation. A fact (yes, fact) which you have conveniently ignored.
Fallacy #2: Fallacy of Exclusion. This one is self-explanatory. My damning evidence that you do not know how to argue is entirely omitted, despite the fact that it can and does change the entire outcome.
Fallacy #3: Inconsistency. Asserting contradictory statements are both true. So, gil sellers fish 24-7 and drag down your profit from cooking and fishing. But, you assert later in that paragraph that higher prices are paid. If you are being forced to lower your prices to compete, higher prices are not being paid. If higher prices are being paid, you are not losing any income or being forced to lower your prices. Both statements cannot be true, it's a logical impossibility.
Fallacy #4: Irrelevant Conclusion. An argument in defense of one conclusion instead proves another. Namely: "You're delusional, there is still just pure facts and irrefutable consequences of those facts." My conclusion is that you do not know the first thing about debating. Debates are all presentation, and a quote-unquote fact can be squashed instantly just on presentation alone. In disagreeing with me, you commit the fallacy of exclusion and ignore my entire argument, thus proving me right. You're out of your league. Stop now, I've humiliated you over and over and over, and it will just continue until you realize that rhetoric is everything in a debate.
Fallacy #6: Prejudicial Language. We've been over this, it's the assertation of right and wrong and the assumption that there is a black and white world. You cannot make a conclusion that gil buying is 100% wrong and hurts everyone, just as I cannot make a conclusion that it's okay. That is delving into the realm of opinion, and using a player's choice of playstyle as derogatory and heroic remarks is once again portraying the impossible black and white world, a world which does not and cannot exist, and a fallacy. You cannot classify people as "good" and "bad" in a debate without eating yourself alive.
And you're done. Again. Ignore these fallacies one more time and you forfeit any claim you have to any recourse, child. They do you in, and THAT is a fact. You are completely done. You lost your argument simply based on the way you presented it, and it's over. For good. Failure to acknowledge the fallacies that demolish you will be an official concession of your ignorance.
Notes:
1) You contradict your own case that there would be the same amount of items as ever without gil selling with your own case about sushi. This acknowledges and admits to what I said earlier about 24 hour farming gil sellers and increasing supply. Heck, try this fact on for size. Gil sellers find Beastmen's and Kindred's Seals. Gil sellers do the BCNMs. Venomous claws, Damascus ingots, Utsusemi: Ni and Erase scrolls, Vermillion cloaks are all introduced into the economy that would not be there without the gil sellers. You cannot assert that there would be the same amount of items regardless, when it's an absolute fact that more players = more items being generated by way of simply doing BCNM. You can make an unfounded case that I can't conclusively disprove about whether or not Ochiudo's Kote would be farmed 24-7 with or without gil sellers. You cannot make the claim that their Kindred battles are not bringing more scorpion harnesses into the game, or their BCNMs are not bringing in more Peacock Charms. Your entire argument fails, child, and you cannot and will not deny it ever again. Gil sellers *are* increasing the supply of scorpion harnesses, they *are increasing the supply of Peacock Charms, Haubergeons, Vermillion Cloaks and scrolls of Erase. It's undeniable, and I guarantee you, you can't and won't even try.
I'm not even factoring in ENM, which gil sellers can and do exploit without the use of seals, adding more Forager's Mantles, Toreador's Rings, Woodsman's and Corse capes, innumerable items, into the economy.
Your point is dead and gone, you have no case about item distribution. Not only do they make money more available to lazy players who would otherwise be gimp, they DO introduce new copies of items into the economy that would NOT be there without them.
Irrefutable, eh? Well, I just completely and utterly refuted it in every sense of the word. Try that on for size, child, you're so out of your league here. Your argument about item distribution is dead.
2) Please, stop it. I did not say stealing, that's you putting words in my mouth. I acknowledged that they take items that legitimate players could buy, not that they steal them. "Take away" /= "steal," please use your vocabulary. You are the only one who's ever called it stealing, and I smashed your definition of theft to tiny pieces.
3) For the last time, supporting something doesn't mean I think it's fine. You're dealing in absolutes again, do I really need to lecture you on all the fundamental flaws of doing so? I support stem cell research. I don't feel entirely right about dissecting fetuses to accomplish this, but the ends justify the means. See what I mean? A person can, and often should, support something they don't think is perfectly fine. It's all a matter of the strengths outweighing the weaknesses. Are you getting this yet? This is your last chance to.
4) Point me to an instance where I've used either-or. Do you even know what the fallacy means? Did you just Google "logical fallacies" then drop this would-be bombshell on me? You're the only one who's ever dealt in absolutes in this topic, child, and that is what either-or is. Either you fight against gil buyers, or you're just as bad as they are. Ringing any bells? It should, you wasted like five posts on it.
You're done. There's nothing left to you. I've refuted your irrefutable fact. I've debunked your status as a relevant debator. I've proven everything you've thrown at me to be utter garbage, and the only one reading this thread who doesn't know it is you. Goodbye, have a nice life, you're finished. I will declare victory in one sentence, then walk away laughing at you in my next reply if you fail to comply with the demands I've laid out for you.
Acknowledge the Kindred/BCNM battle fact. Concede that it is true and you are wrong.
Acknowledge the logical fallacies you are flagrantly ignoring. Admit that your technique is flawed and move on.
Acknowledge that at no time have I said gil buying is okay, nor have I said the word "stole" except in a derogatory context aimed at your ill-informed opinion (yes, opinion :3). Come to terms with the fact that you are hearing what you want to hear and not what I'm actually telling you.
Bow out gracefully and go back to trying to intimidate other people, who won't destroy you. This is your last chance, because one way or another, this post is the end of your argument.
Edited, Wed May 10 01:50:05 2006 by CellyO