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I will color you cynical instead.
by poszlem 3y ago
I will color you cynical instead.
- Loughla 3y agoIs it still cynicism if it's accurate?
- timnetworks 3y agoIt is if the future is stupid.
- tomrod 3y agoI have bad news for you...
- ilovetux 3y agoAcuracy does not factor into whether a statement is cynicism.
- davisoneee 3y agoWe only highlight the cases where the cynicism paid off...and in this case praising someone who is saying something pithy _after the fact_. It's easy to throw out cynical opinions. It's also easy to come along later and say "I _knew_ this would happen"
- KronisLV 3y agoSometimes cynicism is well warranted. Security is just very hard to get right, in general, regardless of who you are.
- npoc 3y agoThis isn't cynicism. It's intelligence - making an accurate prediction of future events.
- davisoneee 3y agoEven a broken clock is right twice a day. Intelligence is being able to _consistently_ make accurate predictions of the future.
- ChildOfChaos 3y agoJust because something ended up being right doesn't mean it was intelligent. Things don't work in absolute, most things are a bet. If one outcome is 99% likely and the other 1%, the intelligent thing is choosing the 99% likelihood, but that still means that sometimes the person making the bad choice was right. That doesn't make them intelligent, it makes them lucky.
- pyrale 3y agoCynicism is often a coping mechanism for people that have seen too many such events happen. It's actually only a problem when it guides choices from decision makers ahead of time, there's nothing wrong with some cynicism as long as it doesn't guide your actions.
- worksonmine 3y agoHow is one not cynical today?
- cudgy 3y agoCynicism is a general distrust in other people’s motives. How does one conclude that distrust expressed in a single event constitutes general distrust? Don’t we need many more examples of distrust from this person before branding them as cynical?