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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Replying to @Cybren @arthur_affect and
Agreed. Trouble is that when you get humans together in a group, and start ridiculing some other group, sober assessments of when, exactly, ridicule is or is not justified aren't always made.
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @Cybren and
Arthur admitted elsewhere in this thread that he was a conflict theorist "born in the womb". So you can't trust him to make this assessment for you. Or trust the bits of info he has cherry-picked about Scott's blog to be fair. I recommend you read Scott's blog for yourself.
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @Cybren and
Sure you can Conflict theorists are correct
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
Do you believe in the principle of charity? If not, why should anyone reading this thread trust you to give a charitable assessment of Scott?
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They shouldn't, they should trust me to give a correct one, based on my kneejerk sense of disgust, which is correct
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