Yes, we can.

[Ghoulish Delight]

You know, I'm still of a mind to call some degree of shenanigans on this one.

Your use of "exact quote" is indicative of some level of deceit. At best, you never looked up the quote and pulled it up from memory and labeled it "exact quote". But the missing period indicates the more likely scenario, you very selectively dissected the quote to only what you wanted.

Yes, you had a perfectly reasonable interpretation, even within context. But it's still a distortion of the full picture that tilts the conversation in your direction. Honestly, using "exact quote" can't BE any more of a textbook logical fallacy example, namely appeal to authority. The rest of the sentence introduced a level of ambiguity to the sentence that you just didn't want to deal with and by saying "exact quote" you are obviously implying you looked it up, copied and pasted in whole. Whether or not that ambiguity invalidates your point is irrelevant at that point. By calling it an exact quote, you've started with a lie.

Sorry Leo, I have too much respect for your communication skills to think that you didn't have SOME intent in quoting it like that. Even if it was just because it meant you could chop a paragraph off your post.