The reason many discussions tend to end like this is because people stop justifying their arguments and instead devolve into reapeating their opinions and throwing insults at each other . While this was a good outline of the basic counter arguments , you said it yourself these are just positions . Widelyheld conservative beliefs that those arguing against have heard many times before . There still isnt any counterevidence which is what the root of UncleSweaty ' s comment was about . And when this list is contrasted against the bestof submission where every point is justified with evidence good or bad , as you noted with the Deadstate . org source its not hard to see why some users think this reply is a joke .