Can you give an example of what you mean by aggressive discourse? because I think I’m bringing the baggage of assuming it refers to tone and inclusion of sarcasm, mocking the interlocutor, as well as name calling and Ad hominem arguments etc. etc.
Said had a habit of responding to posts that were reasonably well-reasoned but sparsely justified with one-word comments like “Sources?”, or very short coments along the lines of “X point is insufficeiently justified.” without any throat-clearing or praise, which is a good example of it done well.
In general, “Your premises are treated as obvious when they are actually bizarre, and your argument is therefore irrelevant.” is maybe the central example of when this is both highly confrontational but also highly necessary.
Can you give an example of what you mean by aggressive discourse? because I think I’m bringing the baggage of assuming it refers to tone and inclusion of sarcasm, mocking the interlocutor, as well as name calling and Ad hominem arguments etc. etc.
Said had a habit of responding to posts that were reasonably well-reasoned but sparsely justified with one-word comments like “Sources?”, or very short coments along the lines of “X point is insufficeiently justified.” without any throat-clearing or praise, which is a good example of it done well.
In general, “Your premises are treated as obvious when they are actually bizarre, and your argument is therefore irrelevant.” is maybe the central example of when this is both highly confrontational but also highly necessary.