The more I think about this the more I realize I need a term that means “Even though the people who are now jumping all over me about some philosophical subject are talking about a memetic war that’s currently raging, and even though they’re not mindless zombies saying completely useless things in support of their points, they’ve chosen to hyper-focus on some piece of my conversation not essential to the main point, and have derailed the conversation.”
I want to use “philosophical landmines” for that, but now that I re-read your article, I realize I can’t. This is because the implication you created is that the person who steps on the landmine has temporarily turned into an argument-shooting NPC.
I’m not sure what should be done about this, if that means I should seek a different term (ideas?), or suggest that a new article for that variation be developed (seems redundant) or request an edit to this one to include current memetic wars and lucid combatants who, though not straw-manning you, have chosen to completely derail your conversation because you triggered them with your special ignorant wording.
Do you feel that an edit to include triggering non-zombies who pursue current wars in irrelevant places would be a good idea? If not, then what do you suggest?
Also important: As a continuation of my interest in beginning a communal list of philosophical landmines, I’ve been thinking about various philosophical landmines that I’ve accidentally laid, looking for good examples. In each case, I’ve considered that it might be a bad idea to post them because this may insult other people due to the implication of mindlessness, or because the person responding was not mindless, so it’s actually inappropriate as an example. Also, we’d probably be more constructive if we could talk openly about philosophical landmines when they arise, which would require removing the insulting insinuations. I think the concept of the philosophical landmine would be far more useful and way easier to create a collection of examples for if the insulting insinuation was taken out. So, an edit would be my preference.
Note: I am delayed in producing this communal list until I somehow resolve the insulting insinuations obstacle.
The more I think about this the more I realize I need a term that means “Even though the people who are now jumping all over me about some philosophical subject are talking about a memetic war that’s currently raging, and even though they’re not mindless zombies saying completely useless things in support of their points, they’ve chosen to hyper-focus on some piece of my conversation not essential to the main point, and have derailed the conversation.”
I want to use “philosophical landmines” for that, but now that I re-read your article, I realize I can’t. This is because the implication you created is that the person who steps on the landmine has temporarily turned into an argument-shooting NPC.
I’m not sure what should be done about this, if that means I should seek a different term (ideas?), or suggest that a new article for that variation be developed (seems redundant) or request an edit to this one to include current memetic wars and lucid combatants who, though not straw-manning you, have chosen to completely derail your conversation because you triggered them with your special ignorant wording.
Do you feel that an edit to include triggering non-zombies who pursue current wars in irrelevant places would be a good idea? If not, then what do you suggest?
Also important: As a continuation of my interest in beginning a communal list of philosophical landmines, I’ve been thinking about various philosophical landmines that I’ve accidentally laid, looking for good examples. In each case, I’ve considered that it might be a bad idea to post them because this may insult other people due to the implication of mindlessness, or because the person responding was not mindless, so it’s actually inappropriate as an example. Also, we’d probably be more constructive if we could talk openly about philosophical landmines when they arise, which would require removing the insulting insinuations. I think the concept of the philosophical landmine would be far more useful and way easier to create a collection of examples for if the insulting insinuation was taken out. So, an edit would be my preference.
Note: I am delayed in producing this communal list until I somehow resolve the insulting insinuations obstacle.