Actually I did. You must have missed it, being too busy trying to convince yourself that you’re right.

Yeah, actually. I don’t believe in essences. Under my personal philosophy, we humans are more like information perturbation machines with extreme sensitivity to initial conditions. It’s close to saying you aren’t anything except the uniquely weighted combination of all your prior experiences, having been processed through the human scope of awareness and memory (if distinguishing the two is even fair here).

That said, nobody is nothing except “just a giant asshole.” I mean that physically, you can’t. You’re stuck in a constant state of becoming something, not being something, which is a necessary consequence of having your human awareness.

“Deep down” refers to a fundamental nature of what humans are. If you want to debate my perspective, go for it. To claim I never gave a perspective is just doing the same thing you’ve been doing this whole time — talking shit.

• I never proposed a strawman argument. My point about concentration camps were validly pointing out that your logic isn’t generalizable. In effect, you contradict yourself on the merit of what sounds correct.
• I also provided a procedural explanation for “deep down.” You then contort that into a baseless categorical statement about how some people are “monsters” deep down, completely missing my argument.
• You pretend that I’m contradicting myself with your false equivalency between my statements of “always becoming something” and “can’t change what you are deep down.” If you actually tried to understand, you’d see that my points were compatible. They actually complement one another.

I can go on, but it is oh so exhausting. Thanks for wishing me luck.