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I think your criticism demonstrates a willingness to only criticize one side of an argument, the one you happen to disagree with. You ask for a charitable inte
by aydyn 4y ago
I think your criticism demonstrates a willingness to only criticize one side of an argument, the one you happen to disagree with.
You ask for a charitable interpretation of OP, but don't give a charitable interpretation of the response.
To demonstrate, even if OP didn't mean to imply the interpretation as everyone sees it, it's highly upvoted and natural to interpret it as such.
The fact that it's upvoted demonstrates that many people do agree with the perspective of that interpretation. In other words, even if the interpretation is not correct (a very dubious claim), it's clearly a popular perspective. Yet you're not willing to engage with it.
- epgui 4y agoI'm actually not on anyone's "side" here, and I provided an example of criticism I thought would be fairer. I also explained (I believe quite clearly) why I thought one criticism was valid and the other was not.[1] The popularity of a comment does not change its meaning. --- [1] In fact, I would like to point out that the alternative criticism I have just proposed (the one on which you are commenting) is essentially the same one you yourself made here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32428259 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32428259 It would appear we're actually of the same opinion on the substance of the parent comment, so I'm not sure where you're coming from here. Is it at all possible that you may have projected a little bit?