This is what happens when your ideas are so fragile they can’t withstand a discussion. People used to welcome debate / opposing ideas. Now it’s seen as “triggering” and must be suppressed. This is how we end up with nerfed echo chambers. It’s very intellectually stunting. Personally, I find it boring to only be in rooms where everyone agrees all the time.
Not even. I like to discuss and debate civilly, and I have zero patience for those who lack civility.
But go on, make me your enemy, I won’t stoop to your level or anybody’s. There are no winners when things devolve into senseless arguing and attempts to put others down. So go off loser, you do you.
when things devolve into senseless arguing and attempts to put others down.
So go off loser, you do you.
This is the first instance of an attempt to put others down that I have seen after reading at least half of the comments here. So, other than your comment, I’d say this thread was mostly a civil debate.
Fair. From my perspective, their poor comparison of what I said was an attack in that it was mockfully discrediting my statements by introducing a false (and imo poignant) equivalent.
I personally feel my interpretation of this as a character attack was justified, though I understand others may not have read it as such and my name-calling therefore appears unprovoked from the perspective of others. And were I to try and set a good example, I should have opted to be the bigger man. But I didn’t enter the discussion for a hopefully productive debate, not to set a good example.
If my approach isn’t to anyone’s favor, I would like to apologize, but must refrain as doing so could make it seem as though I don’t possess confidence in what I’m saying at this moment.
It was certainly uncalled for of me in terms of civility, but I felt rather offended by the notion of these words they were pretending to put in my mouth, and intended to display such.
So yes, I stooped to their level, you in turn followed my lead, and in doing so we have demonstrated that it does indeed result in no winners-- now we’re just a bunch of losers arguing pointlessly on the Internet.
“I like discussion, but only the kind I like should be allowed.”
This is what happens when your ideas are so fragile they can’t withstand a discussion. People used to welcome debate / opposing ideas. Now it’s seen as “triggering” and must be suppressed. This is how we end up with nerfed echo chambers. It’s very intellectually stunting. Personally, I find it boring to only be in rooms where everyone agrees all the time.
Not even. I like to discuss and debate civilly, and I have zero patience for those who lack civility.
But go on, make me your enemy, I won’t stoop to your level or anybody’s. There are no winners when things devolve into senseless arguing and attempts to put others down. So go off loser, you do you.
This is the first instance of an attempt to put others down that I have seen after reading at least half of the comments here. So, other than your comment, I’d say this thread was mostly a civil debate.
Fair. From my perspective, their poor comparison of what I said was an attack in that it was mockfully discrediting my statements by introducing a false (and imo poignant) equivalent.
I personally feel my interpretation of this as a character attack was justified, though I understand others may not have read it as such and my name-calling therefore appears unprovoked from the perspective of others. And were I to try and set a good example, I should have opted to be the bigger man. But I didn’t enter the discussion for a hopefully productive debate, not to set a good example.
If my approach isn’t to anyone’s favor, I would like to apologize, but must refrain as doing so could make it seem as though I don’t possess confidence in what I’m saying at this moment.
You just escelated this specific thread from someone being worried about unreasonable escalation to name calling.
Here, i’ll continue this specific thread at the same level you brought it to. You’re the problem here.
It was certainly uncalled for of me in terms of civility, but I felt rather offended by the notion of these words they were pretending to put in my mouth, and intended to display such.
So yes, I stooped to their level, you in turn followed my lead, and in doing so we have demonstrated that it does indeed result in no winners-- now we’re just a bunch of losers arguing pointlessly on the Internet.