> You get these weird interactions all the time on the Internet: If I ask someone a question about their reasoning, someone else may very well respond with what

> You get these weird interactions all the time on the Internet: If I ask someone a question about their reasoning, someone else may very well respond with what they think. Is the question about the other party’s reasoning as in thought process or reasoning as in the argument they’ve written down? I think of arguments as public processes/entities, in that it doesn’t matter who/where critique comes from. But human beings have particular social psychology so there may be ‘effects’ from drive by critique. > In a lot of Internet conversation it's like you are correcting people who you disagree with and then expounding what you think is true. Often when I read something I don’t agree with, my mind immediately creates a caricature of the author and I get the impulse to crush/fix them.