Oh - Will - I thought I'd share two pieces of insight I took from my "If you're depressed, you're a failure" thread, after I got owned by the respondents there.
- With rare exception, you will never be able to persuade someone to agree with you after you've called them a failure, called them ignorant, called them stupid, or otherwise insulted their intelligence. If your goal is truly to "educate" someone, then insulting them will only impede your goal.
- Anyone claiming to know the "facts" and insulting others for not knowing them will look very foolish in retrospect, especially if
(a) their understanding of the facts is incorrect, or (b) the "facts" change with further research or (c) the "facts" cannot be proven or disproven.
In each case, the one doing the insulting looks like an insolent ass. I know from personal experience, because I looked like one after posting my thread.
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"I'm typing on a computer of science, which is being sent by science wires to a little science server where you can access it. I'm not typing on a computer of philosophy or religion or whatever other thing you think can be used to understand the universe because they're a poor substitute in the role of understanding the universe which exists independent from ourselves." - Willravel
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