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That seems like a strange judgement to make for another person. While I agree that it’s typically better to get updates in person, it may be very difficult to d
by ilinx 1y ago
That seems like a strange judgement to make for another person. While I agree that it’s typically better to get updates in person, it may be very difficult to do so based on their circumstances. And judging the importance of someone else’s family events feels even more inappropriate.
- ericmay 1y agoI’m not judging - I’m just stripping away the excuses. “Oh I just use social media for XYZ” ok so does everyone else who uses it for whatever random purposes that other people want to judge them for. People had great, meaningful relationships before social media.
- yorpinn 1y agoYou are in fact expressing judgement, and your comments are getting more judgemental as the thread goes on. This is the excuse people always use to portray their feelings and judgements as objective "uncomfortable truths".
- ericmay 1y agoOk I’m expressing judgement then. Now that I’m expressing judgement, I stand by my judgements.
- yorpinn 1y agoThat was quick. You are haranguing this person for not upholding your standards of social media use while failing to hold yourself to a standard of intellectual honesty.
- ericmay 1y agoMaybe it just takes an addict to know one?
- yorpinn 1y agoWhen people think things are deeply true of themselves it can be very, very difficult for them to see when it isn't true of others. Especially if there's an embarrassing or shameful element.
- ericmay 1y agoAlternatively, when someone understands a deep truth it can be easy for them to cut through the excuses others use to hide that truth from themselves or others.
- yorpinn 1y agoSure can, but when you refuse to entertain alternative hypothesis or respond to evidence, you're just building a cage to protect yourself from nuance or from recalibrating your views slightly.
- ericmay 1y agoThe evidence provided wasn’t sufficient to me, nor is it anything I haven’t heard from dozens of other people both online and real life. You’re free to disagree, hop on and Tweet a picture of it or whatever, but you should at least have respect enough for yourself to acknowledge that in matters such as this others can have genuine differences of opinion and be dogmatic about them, and have thought through such matters at least as much or maybe more than you yourself have.