• Corroded@leminal.space
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    9 months ago

    My comment about you sounding pretentious was in regards to

    It’s a well known concept

    I was asking you to clarify what you were talking about and you immediately came off as demeaning and full of yourself.

    I don’t know if your explanation relates to ethics and the news, consent, or clickbait. Without knowing what you are talking about I couldn’t even argue with you if I wanted to.

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        9 months ago

        Instead of accusing people of being pretentious, you could instead just ask what they meant. You might get a better response as people aren’t obligated to respond in kindness to insults.

        My original comment was asking “What do you mean?”. I asked someone else what you could have meant and they explained it as “It means if you have to ask whether something is ethically okay than there’s a strong chance it isn’t”. You could have just explained the expression.

        Your comments in this thread like

        The point I made which you missed, is….

        didn’t really help my opinion of your tone. People are just trying to discuss the topic.

        Either way I think my thoughts are inline with @hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com when it comes to that and it was in a parallel thread with you so I won’t bother rehashing it.