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Everyone except you responded with something well-reasoned and interesting. Does that change your mind about your ill-considered and rude response to me here?

• martythemaniak 8y ago
  Isn't it ruder to assume that you think exactly as I do? And why do you take offense at someone asking about your intent? An action is meaningless in isolation and without context. Even something as "obvious" as killing a person cannot be right or wrong without being aware of the context in which it occurred and taking into account the intent of the person. So we're discussing an action "trade war" and you're asking, essentially, is it right or wrong. You can't get a good answer without revealing what you're actually after. Other people merely assumed your intent, whereas I asked you about it. There's a lot of this assumed intent these days, where people can't possibly imagine someone thinking differently than them. So if work with the "economic growth and standard of living increase" intent, then Trump's trade war is idiotic, and we can then show that in many different ways. But Trump's supporters don't share this intent, they're perfectly fine with sacrificing economic growth for other outcomes, mostly about trying to protect their dominant group status. In light of that intent, the same action makes a ton of sense. People should keep in mind that others don't think as they do.