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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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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So, you have muted me and deleted the conversation that I had with you that made you mute me.pic.twitter.com/H9xev3Gfz7
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