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Pathological skeptic here. Being critical, challenging ideas, and evaluating possibilities is something that makes people very uncomfortable and being honest ca
by debacle 14y ago
Pathological skeptic here. Being critical, challenging ideas, and evaluating possibilities is something that makes people very uncomfortable and being honest can burn a lot of bridges, no matter how nice you are about it.
We live in a very lonely world, and most people would rather shut their mouth and damn the consequences that have a healthy argument. It's cold comfort knowing you're right when no one wants to listen.
We are born into a cruelly honest world. Children, before life beats them down, are cruelly honest. Somewhere around that first full time job and the first pregnancy scare, all of the piss is taken out of us. We don't want to be judged, so we don't judge others.
It's a very sugar-coated world to live in.
- nakkiel 14y agoPathological bridge-burner here. Agreed.
- sdoering 14y agoBut the question stands in what a world one wants to live. In a world of sugarcoating, or in a world of truthful edges? Me, I would love the edges. But that's for everyone to decide for themselves.
- gawker 14y ago"We live in a very lonely world, and most people would rather shut their mouth and damn the consequences that have a healthy argument." And most people would rather not listen to criticism and prefer sugar-coating so it doesn't hurt their feelings, aspirations, dreams, etc.
- benihana 14y ago>It's cold comfort knowing you're right when no one wants to listen. This says it all. Being critical, challenging ideas and evaluating possibilities isn't about being right and letting people know it. The whole point of being critical, challenging ideas and constructive criticism in general is to do it for their benefit. To help the person see things they may have missed. It's not about ego tripping for your benefit by proving that you're a visionary who noticed all the negative things they didn't want to see.
- alexro 14y agoHow about this attempt to be nicely critical and help the guy out: http://matt-welsh.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/how-i-almost-killed-facebook.html http://matt-welsh.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/how-i-almost-killed...