“I give up trying to get any answers out of you. You are the toughest poster I ever interacted with on this site.”
We “argue from authority” in the Orthodox world; that authority being our poskim. He seems to be wanting to engage in a rational debate in which such arguments are considered a logical fallacy. He wants this to be purely his knowledge of eruvin vs. your’s, whereas we are used to arguing by bringing down lists of poskim who agree with us.
I don’t think anyone actually cares whether he knows more about eruvin than the rest of us combined (well, he cares). At the end of the day, it’s not how the world works. We can’t just ignore our poskim and claim they were “mislead” or didn’t know what they were talking about every time they say stuff we don’t like. He’s clearly very frustrated that the Orthodox world doesn’t work this way, and will start calling everyone am haartzim when they point it out. This thread has been a roller coster of emotions, and I’m actually at the point where I feel kind of bad for him.