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Originally posted by yournamehere
If we all enter a debate with that attitude, it's pretty much doomed from the start, isn't it?
I'm not singling you out, <b>KnifeMissile</b> - a lot of other replies in this thread mirror the same sentiment, and I'll admit it's one of the reasons I hit the 'back' button instead of 'submit' on a lot of threads (and the reason I generally avoid <i>Tilted Politics</i>). I guess it's human nature to view someone who disagrees with us as less intelligent. After all, I remember reading somewhere that something like 85% of us feel that we're "more intelligent than the average person," which is, of course, a mathematical impossibility.
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Incidentally, if by "the
average" you mean "the
mean" (and most people do) then, mathematically speaking, it's easily possible for most people to be above the average.
Of course (I hope I may use this qualifier) I'm not saying that everyone who disagrees with me is an idiot. It's interesting that you would interpret this from somewhere in my post. What was it that I said that made you think this? I was trying to make a comment about posts that are offensive becauseof their "sheer ignorance and guile." I was talking about dumb, flamebait posts, not conflicting, disagreeing posts. Most people resort to rhetoric and other specious arguments to make their "point" (if it may be called that) without any considering to what was said to them. Their only goal is winning the argument; a futile endeaver if I've ever seen one. Understanding is not a common goal, here at
TFP. At least, not in some threads (and the infamous
Tilted Politics is the worst)...