LogFAQs > #930357652

Foolmo, has it occurred to you that people might feel a 4 hour commute is worth it to be around people they like? That could be because they don't feel the commute is particularly onerous. Or they just like being with people a lot. Like how I like pork belly or the color blue.

Your argument appears to be that anything that can be done in person can be done remotely with sufficiently advanced technology and if it doesn't happen it must mean the tech isn't there yet or the people involved are poor communicators. This completely ignores people's subjective preferences and is a ridiculously prescriptive a worldview that treats your subjective preferences as proper norms for the whole world. This is a bad argument on so many levels it's amazing Lopen has bothered to put so much effort into rebutting it.

And yeah, condescension does not make an argument good. It does drive people away from arguing with you, but that's not because they were convinced, they just don't want to be in a hostile environment where they are condescended to.
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