absolutely, but this started as a good faith attempt at debate, and the fact that it’s now devolved into trolling shouldn’t be framed as a validation of the people who called it bait at the very beginning, or the people who were uncivil because they thought it was bait. Now it’s true, but it was a self fulfilling prophecy
(I’m judging the beginning as the beginning of this thread, but I don’t follow this user so I don’t know if they did anything before that)