i’m going to just start RTing people inveighing against the evils of cynicism without comment because a world with more credulous people is advantageous and if you can be made more credulous by that sort of thing then you deserve to be
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Replying to @chaosprime
Oh, rubbish. "Cynicism" and "Credulousness" are not opposites.
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Replying to @StevenBrust
there are competing definitions but they’re at least opposed if not precise opposites in the one i subscribe to
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Replying to @chaosprime @StevenBrust
there's a difference between skepticism, demanding evidence for claims, and cynicism, a spiritually corrosive immunity to passion in any endeavor. a substantial difference.
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Replying to @palecur @StevenBrust
that isn’t what i mean by cynicism and sounds suspiciously like pessimism. by cynicism i mean distrust of people’s nominal motives.
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i’m not as ungenerous in this as people often are; i don’t think people are typically lying about their motives, i think they typically don’t understand them
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