Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28517148-20170617115826/@comment-32182236-20171216145105

"If there is no evidence that something doesn't exist, it exists. That is high quality bullshit. I'm sorry, but I cannot and won't accept it."

That's not my only argument, if you read further on. Like I said before, you have to consider what "essence" really is. It's your mental identity. Chara has that, so they have essence. Done. Plus there's the fact that if humans don't have essence, it creates a massive plot hole, one of the two absolute WORST things a theory can ever contain. Since there being no essence results in a problem, we must resort to the alternative-Then there's no problem, and we're fine now! It's not like, say, Russell's teapot, where it's perfectly reasonable for it not exist. Reductio ad Absurdum. That is my argument. If you think plot holes and contradictions are A-OK, point out a plot hole in the real world. Also, look back to my "argument" that the Earth is flat, and the fact that the oceans haven't been drained of water is just a plot hole. That's about as seriously as I take any other argument that's justification is "plot hole".