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>why do you think your opinions can outweigh other’s? I don't see where this is implied. I took the implication of "your opinion did not sway my own" >Do you

>why do you think your opinions can outweigh other’s? I don't see where this is implied. I took the implication of "your opinion did not sway my own" >Do you have a fleshed out logically sound argument? The "logic" is "larger states in a democracy should have more power because they represent more people". Which naively makes sense. I'm sure game theory would show some consequence of this formation though as a bunch of smaller states coalition around each other and make a two party system based on land, as opposed to ideology.

MichaelZuo 1y ago
If you don’t think your opinion can outweigh other’s here… how does replying even once, without an attached or linked argument, make sense?
- johnnyanmac 1y ago
  It wouldn't male sense, but an opinion in this case is the argument, no? You can disagree with an opinion and also think your own isn't necessarily superior. In much of internet discourse, your goal isn't even to convince the person to reply to, it's to give more viewpoints to the silent majority who lurk and never comment. Whether they think an opinion is better or worse is up to them.
  - MichaelZuo 1y ago
    This really doesn’t make sense. I can also just say:”All the opinions presented so far are deficient, here is my new, better, opinion X” By your logic if I replied with that to every comment chain in every HN post adjusting X to each topic… then I would become the most productive HN user of all time.
    - johnnyanmac 1y ago
      >I can also just say:”All the opinions presented so far are deficient, here is my new, better, opinion X” Yes, I browse reddit every now and then. It's a shame the Alt-Right pipeline hijacked this. They realized that being loud is better than being correct. I'm a bit confused on how we got onto a tangent about productivity, though. All I was talking about came down to "opinions are arguments, and restating an opinion (in good faith) often means you aren't convinced of another opinion". They're opinions, they aren't inherently right or wrong.
      - MichaelZuo 1y ago
        If opinions were worth, or equivalent to, any kind of argument whatsoever… then my example holds true. I would become the most productive HN user ever… anyone could do so by following that… so clearly opinions cannot be worth anything. All the opinions you’ve ever written, and will ever write, must literally all add up to less than one solid argument.

MichaelZuo 1y ago

If you don’t think your opinion can outweigh other’s here… how does replying even once, without an attached or linked argument, make sense?

johnnyanmac 1y ago
It wouldn't male sense, but an opinion in this case is the argument, no? You can disagree with an opinion and also think your own isn't necessarily superior. In much of internet discourse, your goal isn't even to convince the person to reply to, it's to give more viewpoints to the silent majority who lurk and never comment. Whether they think an opinion is better or worse is up to them.
- MichaelZuo 1y ago
  This really doesn’t make sense. I can also just say:”All the opinions presented so far are deficient, here is my new, better, opinion X” By your logic if I replied with that to every comment chain in every HN post adjusting X to each topic… then I would become the most productive HN user of all time.
  - johnnyanmac 1y ago
    >I can also just say:”All the opinions presented so far are deficient, here is my new, better, opinion X” Yes, I browse reddit every now and then. It's a shame the Alt-Right pipeline hijacked this. They realized that being loud is better than being correct. I'm a bit confused on how we got onto a tangent about productivity, though. All I was talking about came down to "opinions are arguments, and restating an opinion (in good faith) often means you aren't convinced of another opinion". They're opinions, they aren't inherently right or wrong.
    - MichaelZuo 1y ago
      If opinions were worth, or equivalent to, any kind of argument whatsoever… then my example holds true. I would become the most productive HN user ever… anyone could do so by following that… so clearly opinions cannot be worth anything. All the opinions you’ve ever written, and will ever write, must literally all add up to less than one solid argument.