smug intellectual superiority is really difficult to maintain when you think about all the moronic buffoonery that you have committed in your life
I’d charge that it’s an error of reasoning to treat “Have I ever made a mistake?” and “Are my insights shallow or nonsensical?” as if they’re the same question.
More than even flattening two questions into one, your method suggests giving them both an interminate answer (“sometimes”)!
That’s not what I hear moridinamael saying. We all make mistakes constantly, and rarely are even aware of them, so focusing on the mistakes of others as a basis for assessing them as inferior is one more mistake to add to our personal collections.
I’d charge that it’s an error of reasoning to treat “Have I ever made a mistake?” and “Are my insights shallow or nonsensical?” as if they’re the same question.
More than even flattening two questions into one, your method suggests giving them both an interminate answer (“sometimes”)!
That’s not what I hear moridinamael saying. We all make mistakes constantly, and rarely are even aware of them, so focusing on the mistakes of others as a basis for assessing them as inferior is one more mistake to add to our personal collections.