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It feels great when I read something that, somehow, I always believed but could not exactly articulate. I know people that believe that, most of the time, the
by chicob 8y ago
It feels great when I read something that, somehow, I always believed but could not exactly articulate.
I know people that believe that, most of the time, the best way to respond to unreasonable or irrational petitions is to do it by means of answering the actual points made, even if completely unwarranted and time consuming.
For instance, claims of some random paranormal effect should be put to the test with proper scientific investigation, like that would satisfy the claimant and not take us in a never-ending endeavour...
Sometimes, the best way to answer the problem is to make use of well tested heuristics that, instead of going into the specific details, just make the elephant in room more evident: some problems are simply not well put, or some answers miss the point (e.g. the paranormal claim is pseudo-scientific therefore will never accept a negative result, whichever it may be; to feed the troll will not satiate the troll, etc).
- malms 8y agoMm you should spend some time with in a flatearther fb group. Thats when i learnt the true sentence "dont wrestle with pigs, you get dirty and the pig likes it" ><
- tomhoward 8y agoIsn’t the Flat Earth movement a 4chan troll?
- malms 8y agoIf only ^^. Look at the fb groups and all the videos on yt
- tomhoward 8y agoI pay no attention this stuff so it's all unfamiliar to me, hence my curiosity I guess... But how do you know that the people you're interacting with on FB aren't trolls having a joke at your expense? I get that there are some people who take it seriously, but I'm not sure it'd be easy to tell the difference between a believer and a troll in an online forum.
- malms 8y agoI don't know they have normal profile of middle-class americans. Why so many people would they lose time doing so much trolling without clear profit ? Occam razor is my call here. Also as Einstein said: there really only two things infinite: the universe and people's stupidity.
- ancarda 8y agoCould have started that way, but it seems to have gone beyond that. I'd recommend watching Beyond the Curve (2018) -- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8132700/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8132700/
- chicob 8y agoI didn't mean people should pay attention to flat-earthers and such, but that I know people who do actually believe that.