A lot of casual criticism I see boils down to "this thing/person is uncool" and it's frustrating because I want to know the actual reasons why the thing is disagreed with (...if there are any)
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Did you see that tumblr post I linked a while back about how owning idiots is morally obligatory
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I’m lazy to grab the link so I’ll just restate it :
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Premises 1: what people believe affects what they do 2: what people hear commonly said affects what they believe 3: what people say responds to incentives 4: mockery is a stronger disincentive to speech than argument Therefore: it is moral to mock people for saying dumb things
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