Prove what? That you can’t cite a law?

Yeah, this is definitely wrong. Giving away something you don’t own is still illegal.

alt.sysadmin.recovery here I come.

You can only go as high on that scale as your opponent did. For example, you can’t refute the central point of an insult or an attempt at shaming without missing the point that it is simply meant to make you angry or meant to make others completely disregard you. Similarly, if the “argument” is incoherent babbling, you don’t refute it so much as point out that it’s nonsensical.

Here’s a good article about debate and meta-debate.

Every piece of information you give someone can be linked to every other piece of information.

Username + Votes is not a hard connection to make.