I have never behaved in the alleged patriarchal, controlling, caging, nefarious manners towards women which I am being accused of
No. By eridu’s argument, this is a category error. Nothing about your behavior, beliefs etc. could have changed the fact that you are ‘oppressing’ people, for some meaning of ‘oppression’. Your status as “patriarchal, controlling, caging, nefarious, etc.” is simply ascribed, in a quasi-tautological way.
Yes, I do think this is “The Worst² Argument in the World”. It basically amounts to dogma-based emotional manipulation.
Well… a slightly more charitable way to represent eridu’s argument, IMO, would be something like this:
“I believe that you are sincere in your belief that you have never engaged in these nefarious behaviors which you’d just enumerated. Nonetheless, you do engage in many such behaviors, not because you are some mustachio-twirling villain, but because you see such behaviors as normal or even beneficial. You say that you have always done your best to avoid such actions, and I believe you, but your best simply isn’t good enough”.
No. By eridu’s argument, this is a category error. Nothing about your behavior, beliefs etc. could have changed the fact that you are ‘oppressing’ people, for some meaning of ‘oppression’. Your status as “patriarchal, controlling, caging, nefarious, etc.” is simply ascribed, in a quasi-tautological way.
Yes, I do think this is “The Worst² Argument in the World”. It basically amounts to dogma-based emotional manipulation.
Well… a slightly more charitable way to represent eridu’s argument, IMO, would be something like this:
“I believe that you are sincere in your belief that you have never engaged in these nefarious behaviors which you’d just enumerated. Nonetheless, you do engage in many such behaviors, not because you are some mustachio-twirling villain, but because you see such behaviors as normal or even beneficial. You say that you have always done your best to avoid such actions, and I believe you, but your best simply isn’t good enough”.
Ah, thanks!