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GaldraChevaliere wrote

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I dunno about 'rational skeptics', but in most circles that have emotional and social depth exceeding a teacup, talking shit about someone's past and traumas when it's not relevant to the conversation is what in the jargon we call 'a low fucking blow'. If your 'reasoned' argument can't stand on its own and you have to resort to something like that, maybe you're just a craven who needs to try to hurt people to feel big.

Also, like, that's my other point I wanted to get to but didn't have time for. You've got this cultish devotion to Reason as an ideal, one that necessarily requires leaps of faith and proselytism to maintain. I don't believe in Reason, because anyone with a familiarity with game theory knows there's no such thing as a rational actor, one who will take the most beneficial known action every time or accept the most functional argument. People are flawed and their experiences are subjective, and the majority of things you've likely come to view as ineffable truth are in fact social constructs with no material reality. That, friend, is called being Spooked.

You can't escape ideology and you can't escape your subjective experiences, only modify them with new experiences applied, and there's no way to be an impartial and objective observer of any phenomena, whether social or material. What most people do is learn to live with that and just run off of what they've experienced and collaborate with others for mutual understanding. What people like you do is force, usually violently, your beliefs on others and insist yours is the one true way of viewing things and all else is irrational, as if a world where we toil for 12-16 hours a day for not enough food to pay rent and eat at the same time is a rational one in the first place.

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Hyolobrika OP wrote (edited )

| I dunno about 'rational skeptics', but in most circles that have emotional and social depth exceeding a teacup, talking shit about someone's past and traumas when it's not relevant to the conversation is what in the jargon we call 'a low fucking blow'. If your 'reasoned' argument can't stand on its own and you have to resort to something like that, maybe you're just a craven who needs to try to hurt people to feel big.

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