I wouldn’t prod him too much on these things. Cal has never taken any aspect of the discussions on here seriously. He just says what he wants to say, with lazy thinking and unclear associations. (Another frequent technique he uses is pseudo-scientific loose generalizations, when the discussion turns to scientific subjects.) Let him have his fun using his lazy thought processes and vague arguments to try to mess with people. It’s probably the high point in his day when he makes one of those non-sequitur posts.
I respect it when someone disagrees with me, and sometimes (rarely) cal is able to coherently explain why, but usually he shows he doesn’t care much for the discussion or for the people in the discussion. He’s one of those “debaters” who starts out having zero respect for the other debaters (easy to do, I guess, on the internet where you don’t know the other posters)… like, he doesn’t owe anyone here the energy of making an honestly argued post, because it’s “just” the internet.
Well, I can sort of understand that attitude. It’s very rude to other people to “argue” like that, but if that’s how he wants to roll, I say, let him roll that way, it’s useless to try to argue with someone like that. Not really worth my time.