Tram law writes:
And I have been making actual arguments to the best of my ability.
Edit:
To put it simply, I suck at debate ebcause I'm not an intellectual elitist than can use a hundred thousand different words to describe a black carpenter ant. I don't do semantic bs.
Hi Tram.
This isn’t an attack. If you think it is, please ask me to explain what I mean.
I’d like to suggest something for you to consider. Perhaps if someone sucks at something they might not actually understand why?
What I am trying to suggest is that perhaps you don’t understand debate as well as you believe you do and perhaps debate isn’t actually what you might think?
Even if you were to, use a hundred thousand different words to describe a black carpenter ant and do semantic bs your debates here would not be considered much better. It is the case in some places that might be the case in some places, but here, on this forum, the debates themselves don’t let people easily hide behind those tactics.
Try to keep an open mind when reading these boards, you should see that the people who want sound arguments point out flaws no matter who makes them. I believe that part of the problem in our society is that we have an unhealthy respect for opinion. All opinions are not valid and not all opinions are equal. We as a society have been suckered into the BS that simply because we have opinions other people must respect opinions. I like to say that opinions are not worth respect, people are.
I also wanted to explain to you that rudeness is often, perhaps always, situational. I might tell a friend to fuck off and not be viewed as rude. There’s no circumstance I can think of where I could do the same to my 94 year old Great, great, great aunt. If I go into a business meeting and someone punches me in the face, probably rude. If I’m in a boxing ring, probably not.
The situation and circumstances often determine what is rude and what is not. This forum is a very specific type of forum and has its own culture. Certainly from time to time people are rude here, though more often they’re just being honest, blunt, direct, or simply not respectful of opinion.