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Hyperbole is often (successfully) used as a literary device to express sentiments. Is there a sentiment expressed in the parent comment you don’t agree with? Th
by polygamous_bat 3y ago
Hyperbole is often (successfully) used as a literary device to express sentiments. Is there a sentiment expressed in the parent comment you don’t agree with? Then let’s talk about that instead of the form of the argument.
- helboi4 3y agoThis is a great rebuke when someone tries to skirt around your point when you use hyperbole. Will be keeping this one.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoIf you have to use hyperbole (aka lies, fantasies, or otherwise misrepresentations of reality), then you have no point. Hyperbole is for good storytelling, not nuanced discussion or argument.
- helboi4 3y agoIf you think when people use obvious hyperbole they are lying to you, then you are just dimwitted mate. Not my problem. Go back to school.
- Tycho 3y agoI disagree with the doomsaying and making things out to be much worse than they actually are. I don’t think it’s a good thing to do.
- polygamous_bat 3y agoOnce again, it’s a literary device; you’re doing the same thing when you call it “doomsaying”. The goal of it is to evoke a certain emotion out of the reader, which is fine in a discussion. Otherwise any conversation would be dry as a doctor’s report for gastric issues.
- Tycho 3y agoThis just isn’t true. Hyperbole isn’t always appropriate just because it has a name and is a “literary device.”
- asadotzler 3y agoNo response to getting called out for doing it yourself with "doomsaying"? Gonna just pretend you hypocrisy wasn't on full display?
- Tycho 3y agoThe post described being trapped “like dogs” in a hellish state: They will drive us to the absolute edge of torches and pitchforks and keep us there, forever. Hardly an exaggeration to call this doomsaying. You seem very petulant.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoI prefer arguing about reality rather than people’s sentiments. The poster’s argument is useless because of the obviously false assumption of “unlimited workers”, which means the hyperbole did nothing (and actually derailed the conversation and wasted time). Basically what the talking heads on tv “news” channels do to get people to rage and then we end up having measles outbreaks because someone had the sentiment that vaccines are harmful.