er strike me as sincere.  Nobody has to take all
the advice that is offered them, of course, but I think
that I summarize the situation fairly accurately when
I say that even my most prosaic remarks about rather
cut and dried logical errors, even when reinforced by
other observers, have yet to be answered in any one
of the several ways that I would generally expect
from people who are genuinely concerned about
solving rather obvious problems.  These sorts
of communication gaps do engender mistrust.

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