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Originally Posted by JinnKai
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. |
I don't know if this got overlooked, but I wanted to thank Jinn for this post... pretty damn mature of ya there. Will, you know I agree with most of what you're saying, but your approach lacks something in its delivery. I don't know if I speak for any others here, but I definitely switch off my "oooh, interesting thread!" lightbulb when people start dissecting (this goes for Filtherton, too) each other's posts line by line, in some kind of pigs-in-the-mud wrestling match. I'm no doubt guilty of it in other threads as well. But come on here, let's not turn this into a one-upmanship contest...
Unless y'all just like to wrestle and get dirty in the mud, then suit yourself. At least get naked first.
