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"Imagine a world" is a common rhetorical way to start to an aside designed to be a deep generalization/alternate universe thought experiment. Yes, it was an int

"Imagine a world" is a common rhetorical way to start to an aside designed to be a deep generalization/alternate universe thought experiment. Yes, it was an intentional change of topic towards an aside. When you started your comment by quoting that specific phrase I easily assumed that you were interested in following my aside into generalities and/or alternate universe thought experiments. I didn't retcon anything, I intentionally created a fork in the conversation with my aside and assumed that by engaging with it you wanted to follow me down that aside. There's a lot of fun things we could have talked about if you had, and I regret that that wasn't what you were looking for. I'm sorry that "imagine a world" wasn't a strong enough indicator of an aside to the thread above. That said, you've now called me condescending twice and I don't appreciate ad hominem attacks and will not engage with you further on this thread. I hesitated to even write this comment. (I also don't engage by creating "sock puppet" accounts, and I see the other comment accusing me of "sock puppeting" as a third, further unwarranted, ad hominem attack in this thread.) I don't think I need to reread the thread to know what happened in the communication mistakes, but I would suggest that you try to refrain from using attacks to deal with what were simple communication mistakes in the future.

eyelidlessness 2y ago
It isn’t an attack to say that something comes off as condescending. It’s an observation that it comes off that way. It was also a good faith effort to invite you to understand that observation, because I didn’t think that was your intent. I didn’t accuse you of creating a sock puppet account. I observed that the other response came from a newly created account, with that single comment posted about the same time. That observation wasn’t addressed to you, it was addressed to that new account.

eyelidlessness 2y ago

It isn’t an attack to say that something comes off as condescending. It’s an observation that it comes off that way. It was also a good faith effort to invite you to understand that observation, because I didn’t think that was your intent. I didn’t accuse you of creating a sock puppet account. I observed that the other response came from a newly created account, with that single comment posted about the same time. That observation wasn’t addressed to you, it was addressed to that new account.