Archie wrote: ↑Mon Aug 04, 2025 6:49 pm
Nessie wrote: ↑Mon Aug 04, 2025 6:21 pm
I have never said that argument and reason should NOT be employed. Instead,
I argue they should not be used in place of evidence, but you cannot cope with that, so you produce your strawman distortion.
Literally what you are doing in this thread.
Remember you said;
"Arguments are necessary for interpreting and giving meaning to the available data. In a situation where the evidence is so obvious that it speaks for itself, perhaps you could say that argument would be so trivial that it goes without saying, but that's obviously not the situation we are in here."
I have accepted that the forensic evidence regarding signs and traces of the use of Zyklon B at the places evidenced to have been used for gassings, is not self-evident. It is, if anything, the opposite of what would be expected.
When just over a hundred witnesses who worked at or about the Kremas state they were used for gassings, and documents record the construction of gas chambers, the evidence is so obvious it speaks for itself. If the walls of Krema I were stained Prussian blue, that would make it even more self-evident.
But, they are not, and that does require reasoning and argument.
Nessie, I would suggest that you abandon this dog of an argument. You tried something new. It's didn't work out. It happens. Time to move on. There's a reason that nobody else on your side makes this argument. The more typical approach is to give excuses for why there is no Prussian blue. If you argue that there might have been Prussian blue, that is not only highly dubious, you are implicitly admitting that lack of Prussian blue would be a problem.
You want me to abandon the argument, because it is a good point, that causes you problems. You cannot say that if the two bunker/farm houses next to Birkenau, had been left intact, that there would be zero signs of Prussian blue, after their use for gassings. If there was no sign, that does need an explanation, but it does not negate the evidence that those buildings were used as gas chambers.
The real problem here, is that you do not understand evidencing and a lot of the points I have raised.