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I notice there's a misunderstanding, so let me clarify this. I called the passage you quoted "intellectually dishonest", not you. And the "you" in the phrase "you can't just stop the ball rolling" did not mean you personally, but everyone in general.

The same goes for the sentence "how do you explain the fact". For example, if I asked the question "how do you invert a binary tree", I wouldn't be asking how a specific interlocutor would do it personally, rather, I'd want to know how it is generally done.

A more accurate way of stating the question would be "how does one invert..." etc. But that is a bit of an archaic turn of phrase that tends to make one look a bit of a twit, so one tends to avoid it. I do.