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Do you want to understand or do you want to express an opinion? Is your question something that can be answered and lead to greater understanding or is it not
by thinkingemote 2y ago
Do you want to understand or do you want to express an opinion?
Is your question something that can be answered and lead to greater understanding or is it not designed to be answered?
There is a type of thinking that deadens the mind and stops understanding. Some ideas are mind killers stopping any further thought. Many people in us vs them situations do not want to understand the other and in group psychology, understanding the other leads to a weaker group. Groups (e.g. politics) therefore are inherently against empathy with those outside the in-group.
One way I noticed I'm in a bubble is when I come up with my own explanations for others behaviour without wanting to actually interact and understand with them. Then I can begin to break down those borders and see myself in the other.
We are asked to be more thoughtful and kind on HN. How can we do this consciously? How can questions and discussions be created that encourage understanding between people?
- camillomiller 2y agoHonestly, I am really just worried that there is a pro-Musk brigading going on. Considering what is happening, that's not a far-fetched hypotesis. I am very open to discussion, but the advice to be "nice and considerate" in extreme cases like this one can be easily be hijacked into gaslighting by people with a specific agenda. That's the - I believe reasonable - doubt I was casting.
- anenefan 2y agoStuff like that is flagged for no other reason two more like topics have been submitted and marked dead in the hours before, as well as not befitting the spirit of HN aiming to be a place that likes to avoid politics unless of particular interest. I would say turn on show dead even briefly to see how much the same topic gets repeated over and over and over. I would speculate there are plenty of people who are horrified in terms of breach of procedures and protocols as the new installed govt tries to rewrite the rules, who could write a couple pages of serious implications in the aftermath when new management takes over in 4, 8 or however many years to redo all the things that were not done as per the US constitution and with regard to stringent security protocols - it'll cost a pretty penny. However to many such speculation on mass is not very interesting either.
- pvg 2y agoThere doesn't seem to be any evidence of 'pro-Musk brigading', though. It's pretty standard HN-y response to repetition. Happens a lot with big stories that get a lot of reporting and we're in a period of an absolute torrent of stories and their many followups.
- swat535 2y agoAllow me to remind you that HN is a diverse, international community with various opposing view points, cultures and philosophical outlooks. There is no "pro-Musk" brigading going on and more to it, while important, the world does not revolve around America and its internal politics. Some of these posts get flagged because the community feel like the matter has been sufficiently discussed and rather make room for other topics.
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