I think he expected to be able to completely explode the theory; to show how it couldn't exist.
Bear posited it (with all the baggage it entails) and he jumped on it.
At the start it might have been possible to discuss it. Because ruffling feathers wasn't the problem; failure to actually address the things offered up, and then the offensive comment, and the non-apolgies were the things which caused it to go so pear-shaped.
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Date: 2009-02-28 01:15 am (UTC)Bear posited it (with all the baggage it entails) and he jumped on it.
At the start it might have been possible to discuss it. Because ruffling feathers wasn't the problem; failure to actually address the things offered up, and then the offensive comment, and the non-apolgies were the things which caused it to go so pear-shaped.