so I’m not being nice enough, and you want me to defend myself rigorously? Why am I suddenly held to these standards? I think it’s perfectly obvious what I meant, and you don’t want to accept or admit that most people aren’t that great. I think you possess some views about the basic value of humans are afraid to let them go. So you have to attack me as being awkward or deluded in order for your own delusions to make any sense. I can and have explained elsewhere on these forums what I mean and I would gladly again, if you had simply asked what I meant. Instead you generate a multi-paragraph fantasy of myself, a person you’ve never met, involving rejection and inability to accept that rejection. This puts me in no mood to even really interact with you, let alone respond to your what I assume will be ever further rationalized attempts to prove my opinions wrong.
I didn’t mean to accuse you of anything. I even said you may be correct. I was just pointing out that there are a couple common pitfalls on this subject which suggest one should require a higher level of rigor. It’s indeed perfectly obvious what you meant, but what’s not obvious is whether you’re correct in your appraisal. If there were no pitfalls here, perhaps just the statement itself would be enough. But the presence of the pitfalls suggests that unpacking the propositions you made would be beneficial.
I guess I learned my lesson though. I clearly worded my post in an unfair or offensive manner. Sorry about that.
so I’m not being nice enough, and you want me to defend myself rigorously? Why am I suddenly held to these standards? I think it’s perfectly obvious what I meant, and you don’t want to accept or admit that most people aren’t that great. I think you possess some views about the basic value of humans are afraid to let them go. So you have to attack me as being awkward or deluded in order for your own delusions to make any sense. I can and have explained elsewhere on these forums what I mean and I would gladly again, if you had simply asked what I meant. Instead you generate a multi-paragraph fantasy of myself, a person you’ve never met, involving rejection and inability to accept that rejection. This puts me in no mood to even really interact with you, let alone respond to your what I assume will be ever further rationalized attempts to prove my opinions wrong.
I didn’t mean to accuse you of anything. I even said you may be correct. I was just pointing out that there are a couple common pitfalls on this subject which suggest one should require a higher level of rigor. It’s indeed perfectly obvious what you meant, but what’s not obvious is whether you’re correct in your appraisal. If there were no pitfalls here, perhaps just the statement itself would be enough. But the presence of the pitfalls suggests that unpacking the propositions you made would be beneficial.
I guess I learned my lesson though. I clearly worded my post in an unfair or offensive manner. Sorry about that.