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Why can't people just argue intelligently and rationally? Is it because they don't know how to?
Sure someone's viewpoint might seem ridiculous to you, if not horrendous, but they deserve respect just the same, even as you argue against it.
Do you think you resort to belittling or putdowns or attacks when you respond to a thread you dislike?
Maybe it is because.....
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Originally Posted by Jill61
Sorry to disagree with you, but not everyone who posts here is deserving of respect. For instance, posters who are disabused of false notions, but steadfastly continue to spew the same debunked lies don't deserve even a modicum of respect, and I flat out refuse to give them any. I actually think it can be dangerous to respect all opinions, or even to treat all opinions as if they were worthy of reasoned debate. Not all opinions are created equally but oppositely. Some of them are just crap.
Why can't people just argue intelligently and rationally? Is it because they don't know how to?
Sure someone's viewpoint might seem ridiculous to you, if not horrendous, but they deserve respect just the same, even as you argue against it.
Do you think you resort to belittling or putdowns or attacks when you respond to a thread you dislike?
I've seen two sides....some people have very thin skin (when they're losing an argument), they take what other posters say wayyy tooooo seriously...posts are just black marks on a computer screen put there by total strangers.....sane people don't take them seriously.....
They read "someone having a different view" as belittling or as an attack on them.
They should remember: It's ALL funny....and none of it matters....
Sorry to disagree with you, but not everyone who posts here is deserving of respect. For instance, posters who are disabused of false notions, but steadfastly continue to spew the same debunked lies don't deserve even a modicum of respect, and I flat out refuse to give them any. I actually think it can be dangerous to respect all opinions, or even to treat all opinions as if they were worthy of reasoned debate. Not all opinions are created equally but oppositely. Some of them are just crap.
Why can't people just argue intelligently and rationally? Is it because they don't know how to?
Sure someone's viewpoint might seem ridiculous to you, if not horrendous, but they deserve respect just the same, even as you argue against it.
Do you think you resort to belittling or putdowns or attacks when you respond to a thread you dislike?
Sometimes it is satire, some times it is just a way of pushing the other person's buttons, but many times it is the result of a person who is not knowledgeable enough on the subject to articulate a rebuttal, or their own argument just got roundly thumped and tossed in the ****can, and all they have left is ridicule and "neener-neener-boo-boo".
Sorry to disagree with you, but not everyone who posts here is deserving of respect. For instance, posters who are disabused of false notions, but steadfastly continue to spew the same debunked lies don't deserve even a modicum of respect, and I flat out refuse to give them any. I actually think it can be dangerous to respect all opinions, or even to treat all opinions as if they were worthy of reasoned debate. Not all opinions are created equally but oppositely. Some of them are just crap.
Agreed.
Some folks just seem to walk around in an angry green cloud of funk; both the people on the left and right extremes. They take everything out of context, and often focus on one inelegant phrase in a post and go on an ideological rant or personal attack, to devolve the debate or stir the pot and inflame people who were not otherwise disposed. Hmmm, did I just describe a troll?
Why can't people just argue intelligently and rationally? Is it because they don't know how to?
Sure someone's viewpoint might seem ridiculous to you, if not horrendous, but they deserve respect just the same, even as you argue against it.
Do you think you resort to belittling or putdowns or attacks when you respond to a thread you dislike?
"""Why can't people just argue intelligently and rationally? Is it because they don't know how to?"""
One word...BORING.
There are threads where you can read serious discussions and they are interesting...to a point..... the silly threads are just more fun...this is not the Supreme Court....it's a chat room....more like Congress ...
Oh nonsense. It's perfectly within the definition that the personal views, attitudes or appraisals of all of the following are opinions unworthy of respect by any reasonable person. . .
Oh nonsense. It's perfectly within the definition that the personal views, attitudes or appraisals of all of the following are opinions unworthy of respect by any reasonable person. . .
Put your dictionary away and come into the real world where idiotic opinions abound.
I agree. People like that are idiots and should be treated as such.
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), they take what other posters say wayyy tooooo seriously...posts are just black marks on a computer screen put there by total strangers.....sane people don't take them seriously.....
"neener-neener-boo-boo"
