GUEST belongs to the scientific group. There has been a debate for decades between the scientific and other paradigms. And the debate is difficult because the different parties to the debate play by different rules and think the other side's rules are flawed/wrong/even non-rules.
One rule that ought to be followed by all is to read or hear what your opponent has written/heard. In the 1920s,a Cambridge professor of English,I.A.Richards,gave some of his undergrads. a selection of poems and asked for their criticisms and responses. The authors of the poems were kept back from the students.
Out of the responses, Richards identified some simple reading errors rgularly made. And don't forget, the readers were young students of English Lit. at one of the top universities in the world,so ostensibly among the best readers around, yet still making basic reading errors.
One of the errors was failing to read what wwas on the page.
I've written that I've never said that any given emotion IS addictive. What I did write is the emotions CAN be addictive. GUEST keeps reading 'emotions can be addictive'
as
'emotions are addictive'.
I hope everyone can see that those two sentences do not mean the same thing.