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I'm on your side, no doubt. You got my up vote, your parent got my down vote, and his parent got my pathetic attempt to up vote back into readability, because I
by jemfinch 10y ago
I'm on your side, no doubt. You got my up vote, your parent got my down vote, and his parent got my pathetic attempt to up vote back into readability, because I think even poorly phrased references to academic concepts benefit the audience. I absolutely agree with you in principle.
With that said, that post about the "naturalistic fallacy" could just as easily been written "Your intuition is not an argument. What are you really saying about this?" There would have been no wall of text nor any deep explanation. It would have been strictly simpler and clearer.
But if he'd said that, I wouldn't have learned about the naturalistic fallacy, and that would have been a loss. The real problem on the internet is not ivory-tower eggheads, but techies who say the adult equivalent of "I don't like green beans" and expect that to be of general interest or benefit.