I totally agree with you, but I qualify my agreement with a measure of the team I'm on, in terms of maturity. Some people, I have learned the hard way, view an attack on their argument as an attack on them or their character.

As a philosophy major, I learned early that one must distinguish the two types of attack. You can attack my argument and still love me. You can attack me personally, while respecting my argument. These attacks are unrelated.

I am not one who pipes down in the face of illogical arguments. On the other hand, I am not one that pretends knowledge where I don't have it. I am unafraid to say, "I don't understand what you mean by X." I think that this goes both ways. My ability to admit ignorance establishes a credibility ground, so to speak, and so if and when I shoot holes in your construct then you understand that it's the argument I'm attacking and not the peron who launched it.

Arthur