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How does one become always aware in advance of having incomplete or misleading information on every subject that comes up in a conversation? I think some polite
by dsabanin 3y ago
How does one become always aware in advance of having incomplete or misleading information on every subject that comes up in a conversation? I think some politeness and courtesy should be granted in those situations. Especially if you allow for the fact that it is you who could be having incomplete or biased information as well?
- ianbutler 3y agoThis isn't a conversation though, this is a forum. You (the general you) have the ability to google and fully prepare statements with however much time you want to. You can even set a default time limit in the settings on your user profile on HN to give you time before a comment is visible to check yourself and rework a comment if you want. I use it on pretty much every comment. On a forum I would expect someone participating in a thread making an assertive comment to do a few seconds of due diligence. They don't have to have perfect information, or even be correct after they do search, but its pretty obvious when you just come in with 0 information at all. Normally that doesn't even bother me, but when an uninformed comment is used to belittle people or take an undeserved moral position, then yeah, I get pretty pissed.