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Are you making an honest attempt to be civil if you're also stating the "guy is full of shit"? I asked for evidence too, but civility and calling someone full o

Are you making an honest attempt to be civil if you're also stating the "guy is full of shit"? I asked for evidence too, but civility and calling someone full of shit in the same thread?

gunshai 5y ago
Full of shit is short hand for. I'm asking you for evidence for which I have confidence that you do not have. Meaning instead of saying "you are full of shit" I say "can you provide evidence for that" knowing I'll be delightedly surprised if they do, but not being disappointed when they don't and not making them immidiatly defensive with hostile language.
- dQw4w9WgXcQ 5y ago
  Nah, what's full of shit is you up on your intellectual high-horse acting as if you're the god of all knowable and unknowable things. You yourself - o great one and master of all logic and intelligence - should know that a conclusion can still be true even if there is no well-documented evidence simply because enough research hasn't been done yet. But of course it's much easier to blow people off with a "cite your sources, bruh" and then act like you know everything with a zero-effort comment. Yea, pretty sure it's you that's full of shit.
  - gunshai 5y ago
    Seen as how you aren't originally apart of the thread. This clearly struck a nerve. Are you okay? By the way I didn't act like I know everything, I acted confident in the absence of knowledge about a thing and challenged someone on their bold claim to which to me requires good evidence. What your comment misses completely is when I say I'd be delighted in a response that has some evidence I really do mean that. Cant you have to agree it gets tiring reading statements that assert bold claims of which have such a low probability of credibility.
  - dang 5y ago
    Attacking another user like that will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not post like this again, we'd be grateful.

Are you making an honest attempt to be civil if you're also stating the "guy is full of shit"? I asked for evidence too, but civility and calling someone full of shit in the same thread?

gunshai 5y ago

Full of shit is short hand for. I'm asking you for evidence for which I have confidence that you do not have. Meaning instead of saying "you are full of shit" I say "can you provide evidence for that" knowing I'll be delightedly surprised if they do, but not being disappointed when they don't and not making them immidiatly defensive with hostile language.

dQw4w9WgXcQ 5y ago
Nah, what's full of shit is you up on your intellectual high-horse acting as if you're the god of all knowable and unknowable things. You yourself - o great one and master of all logic and intelligence - should know that a conclusion can still be true even if there is no well-documented evidence simply because enough research hasn't been done yet. But of course it's much easier to blow people off with a "cite your sources, bruh" and then act like you know everything with a zero-effort comment. Yea, pretty sure it's you that's full of shit.
- gunshai 5y ago
  Seen as how you aren't originally apart of the thread. This clearly struck a nerve. Are you okay? By the way I didn't act like I know everything, I acted confident in the absence of knowledge about a thing and challenged someone on their bold claim to which to me requires good evidence. What your comment misses completely is when I say I'd be delighted in a response that has some evidence I really do mean that. Cant you have to agree it gets tiring reading statements that assert bold claims of which have such a low probability of credibility.
- dang 5y ago
  Attacking another user like that will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not post like this again, we'd be grateful.