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So what? If you can't tolerate an opinion I can imagine you are having a hard time on the internet. :-)
by airless_bar 10y ago
So what? If you can't tolerate an opinion I can imagine you are having a hard time on the internet. :-)
- placeybordeaux 10y agoIt does a discredit to any other better substantiated or more reasonable opinion you have stated. For better or for worse when most people hear a new statement or opinion coming from someone they will trust it as much as they trust the least believable thing they have heard that person say.
- airless_bar 10y agoThis sounds like a very US-trigger-warning-safe-spacey stance. I think most people on this planet are able to consider each point at its face value.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> I think most people on this planet are able to consider each point at its face value. Humans have a pretty strong demonstrated tendency to develop positive or negative emotional attachments to pretty much everything, including sources of information/arguments, and see the world strongly filtered through those. This is, while it can be misleading, an important evolved survival mechanism in terms of attention/resource management. Most people probably can, by expending effort, mitigate that to a certain extent, but that doesn't negate it completely.
- airless_bar 10y agoPeople who can't assess statements objectively are probably exactly those people whose opinion I couldn't care less about. Perhaps this is exactly the filter I want to have.
- placeybordeaux 10y agoSo you would not assess their other statements objectively?
- jtheory 10y agoA few different people are trying to politely show you a way you're undercutting yourself.
- airless_bar 10y agoAnd that's perfectly fine! I won't throw a tantrum because I might disagree (which I don't).
- placeybordeaux 10y agoThis is not about safe spaces, this is about basic human psychology.