- Jun 23, 2019
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No, your point does not stand unfortunately, because if you play the semantics card then that benefit applies to the post to which you replied to as well, because in that sense his generalization was correct as that's the whole point of generalizations after all: A generalization is taking one or a few facts and making a broader, more universal statement, not necessarily discounting other facts that weren't specifically mentioned. So let's see what he said:
The site was specifically (primarily) made by and for people who want to avoid paying and that remains the main purpose to this day, therefore that sentence is objectively correct, unlike you proposed. Is it a generalization? Yes it is, but not only is his generalization based on a fact, exactly due to it being a generalization it means that he made no other implications, including one where the site is currently used only for that purpose; it was simply you who misinterpreted it or perhaps read too much into it, which ultimately lead to you feeling the need to reply.
Then I read that reply of yours and interpreted it as, at best, non-malicious misinformation, and thus I felt the need to reply with that tidbit of the site's trivia as a way to clarify the object, because your reply that said "that isn't the purpose of this site" in context DID imply (intentionally or not) that the site's main goal is not piracy, which at this point is hopefully pretty clear that is factually wrong.
