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It's the suggestion that someone's assessment of risk-to-reward ratio in this case is wrong spiced with the implication that he is bad at socializing, I would g
by pandaman 9y ago
It's the suggestion that someone's assessment of risk-to-reward ratio in this case is wrong spiced with the implication that he is bad at socializing, I would guess.
Consider the same exchange with different subject matter:
"A: I don't race my car because it's dangerous"
"B: Dude, if you're so bad at driving how do you even get to work? Learn to drive and get onto the track! It's awesome and I had been racing with no injures so why can't you?"
- mikeash 9y agoSure, it’s exactly like the car thing, except racing cars is a recreational activity enjoyed by only a few people, while talking to people is an essential human skill done by virtually everyone.
- pandaman 9y agoRacing is traveling, traveling is an essential human skill done by virtually everyone. Please, let us not get into bad faith argument even deeper. Nobody here is arguing against talking to people. The question is about the safe and dangerous modes of talking to people.
- mikeash 9y agoCommenters here are literally talking about avoiding interaction with half of the people in the world because they don’t know how to do it without getting into trouble.
- pandaman 9y agoCan you please give an example? I only see comments from people avoiding interaction with women at work. And they are doing this because of the potential trouble such an interaction might bring not because they are getting into trouble by doing so.
- mikeash 9y agoI don't think adding "at work" really makes it better. The original comment I replied to is basically saying that men just avoid women as an "one of the unfortunate unintended consequences of the #MeToo movement." My point is that this is not due to #MeToo, it's due to people with bad social skills who think avoiding women is better than improving them.
- pandaman 9y agoWell, if you honestly believe the original comment was about not interacting with any and all women then I don't know what to say. I guess what I tried to explain will remain a mystery to you.