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> You shouldn't project unsubstantiated statements onto people's motives like this.

I am not criticising their motives, I am criticising the result!

Also, definitions are hard. It's why we have pro-choice/pro-life and not anti-choice/anti-life - using the positive spin is a good faith characterisation of a position.

In much the same way, I am using pro-user/pro-business; if my intention was to vilify one of those positions I would have used pro-user/anti-user or pro-business/anti-business to label those positions.

No reasonable interpretation of pro-user/pro-business can make the audience think that I am unfairly characterising either of two positions.

I say this to address the use of the word "unsubstantiated" in your assertion about my characterisations.



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