Brandolini's Law
HOWDY, Y'ALL!!
Loaded post, CDR M! (Say, how DOES one pronounce "Seedy are-um?")
Brandolini's Law: "The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."
Seriously. At LEAST an order.
I learned this the hard way back in the earlier days of online back'n'forth, along with this corrolary: Every carefully-reasoned response will produce another bucket of fisked bullshit which will in turn require yet another etc. to refute it. Ad nauseum.
What you thought was intelligent debate becomes a combination of Whack-a-Mole and Missile Command.
And it will suck up your life if you let it.
http://xkcd.com/386/ (Somebody is wrong)