inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year agoHey media, stop bullying women who refuse to marry Republicanswww.salon.comexternal-linkmessage-square207fedilinkarrow-up1718arrow-down137
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minus-squareTheLurker@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoHowever I would counter with the point that those with a binary view point must be debated in like. How can I debate the grey with a person who cannot see it?
minus-squareMacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down8·1 year agoYou realize that such a debate is impossible to win, right?
minus-squareTheLurker@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoWinning a debate should not be the goal. It should be to progress disclosure and help finding some resemblance of “truth”. Hence why I asked which of the two possible ironic statements I made you were asking about. I’m wrong all the time. But discourse helps us all to learn.
minus-squareMacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down13·1 year agoMost enlightened Lemmy user I’ve met in a while.
minus-squareHikingVet@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-21 year agoYou must have to make new accounts on the regular with that 18 hour old account.
minus-squareMacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down6·edit-21 year agoYou might say I have a talent for going straight where it hurts. “The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” — Oscar Wilde
minus-squareHikingVet@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoI don’t think that quote would ever apply to you.
minus-squareMacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year agoOf course you don’t, because you probably also consider your own genius misunderstood and therefore you have to punish everyone who’s trying to claim theirs.
However I would counter with the point that those with a binary view point must be debated in like.
How can I debate the grey with a person who cannot see it?
You realize that such a debate is impossible to win, right?
Winning a debate should not be the goal. It should be to progress disclosure and help finding some resemblance of “truth”.
Hence why I asked which of the two possible ironic statements I made you were asking about.
I’m wrong all the time. But discourse helps us all to learn.
Most enlightened Lemmy user I’ve met in a while.
You must have to make new accounts on the regular with that 18 hour old account.
You might say I have a talent for going straight where it hurts.
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” — Oscar Wilde
I don’t think that quote would ever apply to you.
Of course you don’t, because you probably also consider your own genius misunderstood and therefore you have to punish everyone who’s trying to claim theirs.