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He just left that exercize for the reader. We are all adults here, capable of reading a link and determining if the information in it refutes a prior comment or not.

(And if we don't care enough to do the work, then we can always not do it and just skip the comment with the link).



>We are all adults here, capable of reading a link and determining if the information in it refutes a prior comment or not.

It serves no purpose, because the purpose itself was never mentioned. I asked for one. I don't quite understand why it bothered you.


Didn't have to be mentioned. It was obvious from context.

>I don't quite understand why it bothered you.

Because of the entitlement ("YOU have to do the work" etc) and the pissing on his contribution ("what's the point of linking to such articles" etc).


I do have a sense of entitlement. I want things to make sense.




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