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RE: Something I'd really like people to understand... disagreement is good. Don't so quickly consider it trolling.
Our society does not condition us very well with how to deal with this.
I disagree, I think 'society' does a really fine job teaching us to throw fits.
I do agree that fits are not the way to handle things, generally.
We are the way we are because this is the way the influncers want it.
In the field of critical thinking this is called an ad hominem attack.
Your logical fallacy is,...
Good schools would have taught me that,....we should've paid the teachers more. 0.o
It may be an impasse, but you can exit gracefully.
Yep, that is where the troll comes out, they think they win because rude words came out of their mouths.
I generally just unsubscribe, it's hard for me to watch people continue with their misinformation, but tire of trying with that person.
That was not my logical fallacy. I never said that. You chose to think of that and then decide I somehow implied it and run with it as though I did.
Nothing like that thought EVER crossed my mind while writing that piece. :)
You can't call something a logical fallacy if doing so requires you to act as though something you imagined as being implied was. That might work in a world of telepaths. ;)
In this world I think we all wonder how we can make it better. I am not indifferent to that. Many of the ways I'd like to help are beyond my scope due to lack of political or financial power.
I've chosen to try to make more people aware of critical thinking and encourage them to treat it like mental exercising. We never master it, we just get better at it, we should exercise it to keep it from atrophying as well.
As to the people that I am frustrated with. As long as I never actually can conclude they were a troll, I will leave the door open to them no matter how small.
I've noticed people can disagree when you speak to them. They can be stubborn and deny it. Actually... I'm stopping here... I need to write this as a post. :)
Thanks for the inspiration.
@dwinblood
Hold up, we got a miscommunication.
I wasn't calling anything fallacy, I was offering you a resource, and had nothing to do with your post, except in that small way.
Yep, just good manners.
I hope you link it to me,....you do put out some good content.
https://steemit.com/philosophy/@dwinblood/that-was-a-waste-of-time-was-it-really
I think part of it is the scroll box quoting thing that keeps coming up on these replies of yours.
With markup all you have to do is put a > as the first character of the line and then paste whatever you want to quote after it... I'm not actually sure how you get those boxes with the scrollbar that you somehow managed to pull off. I've never used them here. :)
@dwinblood
I'll read that when I get back online, gtg.
The 4 spaces markup is for code :)
Works good for quotes, too.
It works but makes long lines not break. Once you got used to both, using code blocks for quote becomes weird looking 😉
@reggaemuffin
Do you know the code for quoting?