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Kranar 3 days ago

No being honest does not mean that and had you said that I'd have no basis upon which to object to your comment.

You refuted an argument about being honest about accepting an award on the basis that the award pays a lot of money and grants one a great deal of popularity.

If your argument didn't involve money and popularity, then why did you choose those two specific criteria as the justification for accepting this award?

I want to be clear, I am not claiming that Dr. Hinton accepted the award in a dishonest manner or that he did it for money, I am simply refuting your position that money is a valid reason to disregard honesty for accepting a prestigious award.

pretzellogician 3 days ago | parent [-]

So we agree; you aren't claiming the award was accepted in a dishonest manner, and I never claimed anything about honesty being an issue. I simply found the idea of Hinton rejecting the award for the "honour of the Nobel [choice of category]" to be a silly idea.

jrowen 3 days ago | parent [-]

Your indignation here seems a bit unwarranted. You definitely did bring the arguments about recognition and money into play and then basically gaslit someone for responding to them. You could have simply said that you misspoke.