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| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 182: Vesuvius of Mendacities |
| pyresword 06/27/18 9:50:53 PM #400: | Jakyl25 posted... pyresword posted...What I'm saying is that even in some hypothetical world where it is an absolute philosophical truth that someone is not worth engaging with, you still should not tell that person either directly or indirectly that they are not worth engaging with. Because it is demeaning to that person and potentially demeaning to others who either have similar beliefs or to people who mistakenly (in this hypothetical construct) identify this person as someone who is worth engaging with. I take it to be a moral axiom that this fact is in-and-of-itself a bad thing. (Also it is worth pausing for a moment to point out that this becomes much much worse as soon you remove my "absolute truth" conditional statement) Furthermore I do not perceive any potential benefit that could come from such an action which could not be achieved through methods which do not suffer from the above problem. If you're trying to avoid wasting time reading someone's nonsense, you could instead just not read it (made particularly easy here via the ignore button). If you're trying to communicate to other people that someone is not worth engaging with, you could instead for example communicate with that person privately, or engage with the original person's ideas anyways on the basis that by continually exposing flaws in that person's rationale/beliefs, others will naturally come to the conclusion that the person is not worth engaging with. --- Congratulations to BK_Sheikah00, this year's guru to achieve contest enlightenment! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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