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Boring to read about SWAT teams getting sent to people's homes, because they're family of an outspoken woman? About weird-ass "gamers" whose lives are so devoi

Boring to read about SWAT teams getting sent to people's homes, because they're family of an outspoken woman? About weird-ass "gamers" whose lives are so devoid of meaning that they become psychopaths?

scrollaway 12y ago
Wow. You're doing exactly what I spoke against in my post above. You're singling out one side and pointing the finger yelling "bad people! bad!". Do you really think the argument is "bad people" vs. "good people"? That the pro-gg side's argument is "let's be psychopaths! being a psychopath is fun!"? Think for a moment. Please. I looked at your other posts, you seem like a smart and completely reasonable person. Why didn't it occur to you that whatever is happening on twitter is foreign to the actual talking points? And why didn't it occur to you that both "sides" are full of raging psychopaths who have done the worst of the worst? How can your mere association and sympathy with one of the sides make you so blind to its own actions? Maybe we're here seeing why the two-party american political system is such a clusterfuck. Edit: Jesus christ the downvotes. "Screw anyone who tries to bring sanity to this debate! I want my chaos back!". You're better than that, HN.
- davidgerard 12y ago
  http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Balance_fallacy http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Balance_fallacy
  - scrollaway 12y ago
    There's probably a fallacy where the person trying to retort just sends a link to an external article supposed to "inform", thereby avoiding the effort of thinking through an actual point. ... but if I linked you such an article, that'd be a bit of a catch-22. So, what's the point you're trying to make? Do you even have one? Or did you, too, pick a side and decide they were more right than the other, blindly ignoring the three posts I've written about it? And will you actually try to answer, or are you, too, going to instead whine on twitter that "{pro,anti}-gg people are being mean again!"?
  - barry-cotter 12y ago
    http://lesswrong.com/lw/la5/neoreactionaries_why_are_you_neoreactionary/bmho?context=1#bmho http://lesswrong.com/lw/la5/neoreactionaries_why_are_you_neo... So Mr. Gerard, how's that hobby of attacking intelligent and fair minded people for engaging in civil discussion going? [Above link gives context on David Gerard's standards of discourse.]
    - scrollaway 12y ago
      Ha, I didn't even realize it was that David Gerard; it's been years since I paid any attention to that name. It's sad to see people don't evolve.

scrollaway 12y ago

Wow. You're doing exactly what I spoke against in my post above. You're singling out one side and pointing the finger yelling "bad people! bad!". Do you really think the argument is "bad people" vs. "good people"? That the pro-gg side's argument is "let's be psychopaths! being a psychopath is fun!"? Think for a moment. Please. I looked at your other posts, you seem like a smart and completely reasonable person. Why didn't it occur to you that whatever is happening on twitter is foreign to the actual talking points? And why didn't it occur to you that both "sides" are full of raging psychopaths who have done the worst of the worst? How can your mere association and sympathy with one of the sides make you so blind to its own actions? Maybe we're here seeing why the two-party american political system is such a clusterfuck. Edit: Jesus christ the downvotes. "Screw anyone who tries to bring sanity to this debate! I want my chaos back!". You're better than that, HN.

davidgerard 12y ago
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Balance_fallacy http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Balance_fallacy
- scrollaway 12y ago
  There's probably a fallacy where the person trying to retort just sends a link to an external article supposed to "inform", thereby avoiding the effort of thinking through an actual point. ... but if I linked you such an article, that'd be a bit of a catch-22. So, what's the point you're trying to make? Do you even have one? Or did you, too, pick a side and decide they were more right than the other, blindly ignoring the three posts I've written about it? And will you actually try to answer, or are you, too, going to instead whine on twitter that "{pro,anti}-gg people are being mean again!"?
- barry-cotter 12y ago
  http://lesswrong.com/lw/la5/neoreactionaries_why_are_you_neoreactionary/bmho?context=1#bmho http://lesswrong.com/lw/la5/neoreactionaries_why_are_you_neo... So Mr. Gerard, how's that hobby of attacking intelligent and fair minded people for engaging in civil discussion going? [Above link gives context on David Gerard's standards of discourse.]
  - scrollaway 12y ago
    Ha, I didn't even realize it was that David Gerard; it's been years since I paid any attention to that name. It's sad to see people don't evolve.