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> Unfortunately it is going to require people to sit with feeling uneasy People throw around this phrase, but it always strikes me as nonsensical. There's a l
by jimbokun 5y ago
> Unfortunately it is going to require people to sit with feeling uneasy
People throw around this phrase, but it always strikes me as nonsensical.
There's a lot of stupid opinions that can make people feel uneasy, so unease is not some magic barometer of truth.
People are going to feel really uneasy if they are listening to you defend your appreciation of child pornography, but that doesn't mean you have struck upon some deep uncomfortable truth.
- gotaquestion 5y ago
- deadbeeves 5y agoStating that it's a comparison (which it's not) or that it's frequent does not refute the counter-example. GP's contention is "some things people say make others uncomfortable, but not because they're true, thus the fact that a statement makes people uncomfortable tells you nothing about its truth value", and has provided an example of such a thing.
- teakettle42 5y ago[edit] Discarding the comment, because without the (now-flagged) context of the parent, it was unclear and open to misinterpretation.