Original sentence: Erik Naggum several times stated that stupidity, or rather the lacking willingness of individuals to acquire knowledge about a subject, argument or read other people's arguments with an open mind, was more or less a criminal offense.He was known for his polemic aggression towards what he considered to be ignorant individuals
Edited sentence: Erik Naggum several times stated that stupidity, or rather the lacking willingness of individuals to acquire knowledge about a subject, argument or read other people's arguments with an open mind, was more or less a criminal offense (if it were, he would have been the first to be imprisoned for it).He was known for his polemic aggression towards what he considered to be ignorant individuals, but what usually were merely people who happened to disagree with him on the specific issue.His arguments centered on (re)defining the concepts so that his position would be trivially correct