It seems to me a simpler hypothesis that these women are acting appropriately by avoiding you. Given that, it would be a disservice to potential romantic interests if you were given tools to pretend to be someone they’d want to be with.
But then, the ‘fundamental attribution error’ comes naturally to us virtue ethicists.
This doesn’t quite make sense. You seem to be arguing that women have some capacity to identify some “true nature” of potential suitors completely independent of their behaviour. It also suggests that women are acting appropriately by not avoiding PUAs. Which leads to an interesting quandary: is Joe’s “true” nature what women see before or after he learns PUA skills? Does that mean that naturally intuiting PUA skills (i.e. not having to learn them) makes a man a good catch? It’s not a simple hypothesis at all.
It’s also worth noting that not all PUA strategies are dishonest or exploitative. Some of them are nearly-common sense, and some of them are unusual but fundamentally honest.
It seems to me a simpler hypothesis that these women are acting appropriately by avoiding you. Given that, it would be a disservice to potential romantic interests if you were given tools to pretend to be someone they’d want to be with.
That hypothesis is very simple but it isn’t relevant to what Silas is saying. He is objecting to misinformation directed at guys and not even commenting on what women should be expected to do.
It seems to me a simpler hypothesis that these women are acting appropriately by avoiding you. Given that, it would be a disservice to potential romantic interests if you were given tools to pretend to be someone they’d want to be with.
But then, the ‘fundamental attribution error’ comes naturally to us virtue ethicists.
This doesn’t quite make sense. You seem to be arguing that women have some capacity to identify some “true nature” of potential suitors completely independent of their behaviour. It also suggests that women are acting appropriately by not avoiding PUAs. Which leads to an interesting quandary: is Joe’s “true” nature what women see before or after he learns PUA skills? Does that mean that naturally intuiting PUA skills (i.e. not having to learn them) makes a man a good catch? It’s not a simple hypothesis at all.
It’s also worth noting that not all PUA strategies are dishonest or exploitative. Some of them are nearly-common sense, and some of them are unusual but fundamentally honest.
That hypothesis is very simple but it isn’t relevant to what Silas is saying. He is objecting to misinformation directed at guys and not even commenting on what women should be expected to do.