Anti-Feminism

[Frylock]

Wait, apologies I genuinely am not sure which comments you’re referring to.

[LinusK]

@Frylock

No, you missed the subtle difference between the word “with” and the word “without.”

The point wasn’t a difference of 0.6%. The point was that you changed “with” to “without.”

You said 1.2% are settled without a trial.

But in fact, what your source said is that 1.8% are settled with a trial.

Please acknowledge this by typing, not quoting, the words: “The article I posted actually implies that 98.2% are settled without a trial, not 1.2%.”

Oops. Sorry. My bad. The article said, “By 2002, that figure had plummeted to 1.8 percent.” “That figure” referring to cases that went to trial. So I should have said, "98.2% did not go to trial. Usually I try to be pretty careful when I post, and that time fucked it up, not once, but twice. :smack:

Thanks for pointing it out to me.

[LinusK]

@Frylock

LinusK, that actually seems to be going to your point, anyway–you started out saying the vast majority of cases are settled without a trial. So in that sense, what I just said should be good news to you.

That still leaves everyone very confused about your point though, because even as you insisted that the vast majority of cases are settled without a trial, you also insist that it’s a lie to say that the great majority of child custody cases are settled without a trial. Why are you insisting that most cases (in general) are settled without a trial then? It’s not clear at all why you’re insisting on that, if you are then going to go on to say that child custody cases are a major exception to that general idea.

No: it’s not a lie to say the majority of custody cases are settled without a trial. The majority of all legal cases are settled without a trial.

It’s a lie to assert that that distinguishes custody cases from other legal cases; or to assert that because a case was settled, that makes the resulting settlement fair.

[LinusK]

@Jonathan_Chance

Right, I’m getting tired of this. Any more snark by anyone and it’s warnings and s closed thread.

Just so I understand: you’re saying if I start a thread, and a bunch of people respond with personal attacks (or “snark”, to use your word) you’ll reward them by closing the tread, and punish me for their bad behavior?

[Jonathan_Chance]

Frankly, many people - including you - have not behaved with great distinction in this thread. You got 25 pages out of it. You get no more.

Everyone head for neutral corners and take a breather.