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The real "pox" is shutting down someone giving their opinions in good faith.
by AB1725 3y ago
The real "pox" is shutting down someone giving their opinions in good faith.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoThe phrase "shutting down" here is doing a lot of work. Why don't we characterize it as "challenging" them?
- glitchcrab 3y agoBut they're not challenging them, are they? If they were challenging the opinions then there would need some sort of rebuttal. Instead they're essentially saying that OP worded it wrongly and therefore their points are invalid.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoCall it what you want, pushing back on someone's opinion is acceptable, fine, and should be encouraged. What we need to stop doing is making arguments that something being an opinion means it shouldn't be pushed back on. It's one thing if someone says I like broccoli better than pizza, it's another when someone makes a statement that is not about their own preferences. Many of those opinions are bad and should be challenged.
- brightlancer 3y ago> pushing back on someone's opinion is acceptable, They didn't push back on the _opinion_, they pushed back on _expressing an opinion_: ¨Respectfully, "I firmly believe" followed by an assertion from a non expert passing as "facts" is a pox on our modern society.¨ Nothing in there is "challenging" the opinion or "pushing back" on the opinion -- it's criticizing _expressing an opinion_.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agothis is slicing and dicing of words to try and weave a narrative. The poster reacted to an opinion negatively and pointed out that people need to stop that behavior. Can you imagine if someone said "raping children should be ok" and someone else tried to argue that saying people should stop raping children means they attacked the person and not the opinion? right, they challenged the opinion, stop with the wordplay.