What I understand about persuasion is that it mostly doesn't work
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
For instance, you are trying to use this technique on me right now and miserably failing, because we can all tell that you are very clumsily trying to imitate someone who shares my values without actually understanding what they are
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
I'm not trying to persuade you, I'm trying to persuade others who are reading the thread. People most likely not participating in the conversation because they're on the fence
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @iridienne and
Yeah, that's also the only reason I have these conversations, and the way to do that is to appeal to the values I actually share with them, by using someone like you as a negative example to hold in contempt and disgust
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
So you persuasion techniques are explicitly and openly based on dehumanizing your interlocutor?
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @iridienne and
Yeah the kids these days call it a "dunk", it's a basketball metaphor
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
And specifically the purpose of ridicule is to define the bounds of acceptable behavior to everyone else, not convince the person who you are ridiculing of something
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Replying to @Cybren @arthur_affect and
Well, I'm glad we've retreated from the explicit endorsement of holding disgust for others, at least
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @arthur_affect and
Sometimes ridiculous behavior is deserving of ridicule. Sometimes contemptible behavior is deserving of contempt.
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