“b-but bears are actually dangerous!” Shut the hell up.

  • KeenFlame@feddit.nu
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    2 months ago

    Yes, feelings matter. Beautifully put.

    But nobody is purposefully “wedging a stick” between allies and enemies. No secret society is plotting to prevent you from sending any message of safety. The metaphor is not designed, or created for a specific purpose. You have to realise how crazy and for real dangerous this way of agumenting is.

    You aim for a good purpose, then use basically the debate version of biological weapons of mass destruction to make your point.

    Just for any small argument about a small thing between sexes, like always it’s fun for people to discuss, and some get mad, but

    For you to use the narrative of psy ops, learned no doubt subconsciously, to speak like there is a secret cabal that want you to be fearful, we must unite against some kind of expression just because they are coming for you… No

    If anyone takes it too far it’s talk like that, and you unironically talk about how reasonable people are hard to come by

    Gee

    Wonder why that is brother

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      But nobody is purposefully “wedging a stick” between allies and enemies.

      The purpose of a system is what it does.

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        No it’s not and that’s a terrible way to view the world.

        Are you the same idiot who argued with me before because he thought he’d found the Word of God in this random philosophical exercise?

        Edit: nope, different moron. I wonder why this silly thing is making the idiot rounds lately? It’s like when a 19 year old has their first philosophy 101 class and thinks they’ve gained supreme knowledge of how the world works.

        https://lemmy.world/comment/9746636

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          It’s systems thinking and if you think it’s terrible then because it’s terribly good at getting rid of excuses. “Oh but you see the intent of the prison system is to reduce crime, never mind it doing the opposite, move along, nothing to see because intent is all that matters”.

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            2 months ago

            Yes, it’s a thought exercise, not a tautology. And it’s not a great thought exercise either, because people of low intellect apparently assume it’s a tautology because of how it’s worded.

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                2 months ago

                Those are more or less synonymous.

                I can tell you’ve been huffing too much philosophy because you insist on weird hair splitting like this lol