I just accidentally quote tweeted a person I was having a disagreement with saying 'don't be this person' when I meant to quote tweet myself saying this: https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/685624693093699585?s=19 … Have apologised and deleted. I did not mean to single him out as a person not to be!
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Or they can be speaking in a context they assume you to be aware of having been over the fine details previously. Insisting that they really did mean what you read them to mean rather than what they tell you they mean is pointless.
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Even if you think they really did mean what you thought they meant and are now backpedaling, in 9 cases out of 10, it's best to let them do that if your aim is to change their mind from the view you thought they had rather than be seen to have "won."
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There is a certain type of person who seems to enjoy finding loopholes in a point with which to argue needlessly rather than engaging with what was clearly the point and these people are incredibly tiresome.
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I first realised how common this was when Richard Dawkins tweeted that it was unacceptable to deny women the right to drive and 25 people replied "even if they've been convicted of dangerous or drunk driving." I have many ppl muted for it. I don't understand the psychology at all
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There must be some pleasure in taking a statement out of context and finding a way in which it doesn't apply or has an exception because so many people do it, but I can't imagine what it is or how it works.
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They could even just be *not that great* at written communication. Seasoned professional writers can have trouble conveying their meaning perfectly first time. Random folks with skills in other areas on Twitter moreso.
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