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Now while the phrasing might've been a bit provocative, I do believe I made a substantive point. The parent was making a comparison between health measures and
by malermeister 5y ago
Now while the phrasing might've been a bit provocative, I do believe I made a substantive point.
The parent was making a comparison between health measures and dictatorship. I made a counterpoint that freedom is worthless if we're all dead from disease.
The dysphemism was merely a rhetorical device to add a little color to the argument, but the argument per se was just that, a substantive argument.
- dang 5y ago"Freedom is worthless if we're all dead from disease" doesn't seem particularly substantive to me. In any case, please make your arguments without swipes and without breaking the site guidelines in the future. You've been doing that repeatedly, not just in this one case. That's not cool. Commenters tend to underestimate how provocative their own provocations are (by at least 10x), and overestimate it in the other person. Objects in the mirror are much closer than they appear. That's why we all need to err on the opposite side - otherwise we just get a downward spiral. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- malermeister 5y agoPoint taken on the subjective judgement on provocation - I'll try to do better there! I do still think liberty vs life and the right balance between the two should they be in conflict is an interesting philosophical discussion to be had, fwiw.