(July 5, 2013 at 11:45 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: Considering it's not intellectually responsible to ask someone to disprove something that has no clear definition and without making any attempts to prove it in the first place? Why is one allowed to ask, and the other not allowed to refuse an answer without being called intellectually irresponsible?
Because two wrongs don't make a right. It is intellectually irresponsible to ask an ill-formed question about proving a negative and intellectually irresponsible to dismiss it out of hand. The responsible thing to do would be to have the question clarified and a workable set of constraints established. This would also be how you distinguish between a genuine inquiry and a sloppy defense. Someone making a genuine inquiry would attempt to rectify it into a proper question whereas others would prefer to obfuscate the issue further.
