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Congratulations, you're an absolutist who thinks it is valid to sum someone up by a single opinion in the sea of human complexity.
by quaunaut 14y ago
Congratulations, you're an absolutist who thinks it is valid to sum someone up by a single opinion in the sea of human complexity.
- dllthomas 14y agoHow is one to refine their expectations of other people's abilities, if not by updating on available evidence? Pot, kettle, incidentally. Compare parent's "I immediately lose a bit of respect" with your "you're an absolutist who [...]" The latter makes a much broader claim based on a similarly small piece of information.
- gnaritas 14y agoYou should work on your reading comprehension since I did nor said no such thing. Losing "a bit of respect" is not equivalent to summing someone up by a single opinion, it's not even close.
- jamesaguilar 14y agoI don't get it. Are you arguing that one should not be able to adjust their respect for a person based on that person's political leanings and/or lack of literary taste?
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