to be fair you are VERY difficult to hold a conversation with. You don’t acknowledge points, you move goal posts, and you switch topics often. Many of your posts appear to be trying to elicit a emotional response from people.
But I think you know this, you even named yourself ‘Toxic’, so this shouldn’t be a surprise.
Many people get frustrated in those circumstances and lash out.
it’s unfortunate, but many just devolve to their base instincts. yes, yes, I see your point - and I’ll admit that you’ve got a point. I was/am/have been attempting to engage a diverse community in discussion. too often it seems that “discussion” in these threads is “X is bad” and then a bunch of folks chiming in “I hate X”, “X stole my lunch money”, “X slept with my wife and she left me because of Y reason”, etc, etc. there’s no actual discussion in the sense that we’re exchanging ideas or broadening each other’s worldviews. it’s just supporting criticisms. maybe that’s what people learn these days in colleges?
other than our linguistical expertise, our prose, it could easily be a transcript of insults between a few younger children on a playground somewhere. and I find that depressing. so I attempt to engage - but more often than naught it’s like screaming into the dark & praying for a response - any response, even just someone else screaming back.
find the right community -> start the right community
Otherwise, I agree. Too much group think, not enough open and thoughtful debate.
no real debate at all, just… arguing, then insults fly when they discover arguing isnt working. it’s a sad state of affairs.
to be fair you are VERY difficult to hold a conversation with. You don’t acknowledge points, you move goal posts, and you switch topics often. Many of your posts appear to be trying to elicit a emotional response from people.
But I think you know this, you even named yourself ‘Toxic’, so this shouldn’t be a surprise.
Many people get frustrated in those circumstances and lash out.
it’s unfortunate, but many just devolve to their base instincts. yes, yes, I see your point - and I’ll admit that you’ve got a point. I was/am/have been attempting to engage a diverse community in discussion. too often it seems that “discussion” in these threads is “X is bad” and then a bunch of folks chiming in “I hate X”, “X stole my lunch money”, “X slept with my wife and she left me because of Y reason”, etc, etc. there’s no actual discussion in the sense that we’re exchanging ideas or broadening each other’s worldviews. it’s just supporting criticisms. maybe that’s what people learn these days in colleges?
other than our linguistical expertise, our prose, it could easily be a transcript of insults between a few younger children on a playground somewhere. and I find that depressing. so I attempt to engage - but more often than naught it’s like screaming into the dark & praying for a response - any response, even just someone else screaming back.
anyway, I digress.