phil_l wrote: ↑Thu 3 May 2018 16:39
Kyle Judkins wrote: ↑Thu 3 May 2018 14:07
phil_l wrote: ↑Thu 3 May 2018 12:28
From the moment someone feels insulted, it is a personal attack.
Re-read that out loud a few times...
I don't know what brand of post-modernism you pour into your cereal every morning, but that is the most ridiculous perspective I have ever heard.
It's not up to anyone to decide if what is said about them is a personal attack... There are objective measures, which exists far beyond the rattle psyche of whoever decides to feel offended or insulted.
You are basically representing the slow manipulation of thought that has occurred over the past few decades... I suggest you read 1984.
By your logic nobody can even criticize anyone else, that would be a personal attack... so everything you said both positive and negative about headshot, headshot would be within his right to be offended, thus making even the nice things you said about him a personal attack... You see how stupid that is?
If it's up to anyone to decide if someone else committed a crime based on wild feelings, then thought his crime, and if I think you committed treason, then you committed treason. No further trial needed, just throw you in prison or execute you.
I'm trying to imagine a world where everyone is too afraid to criticize each other, for fear that it will be taken as a personal attack.
Funny how all of you on this forum seem to have a thesis in philosophy.
I'm sure you're a bright guy, but so far you've managed to miss label well documented criticism as a personal attack, took part in ad hominem and gaslighting, and now deflected.
One of the major rules of this forum is to argue with arguments...
simply saying "heh, u must hav a degree in philosophy" is not an actual argument, and it's a terrible case of appeal to authority fallacy..
If the greatest mathematician in the world says 2 plus 2 equals 5, they are still wrong... if a second grader says two plus two equals four, then they are correct.
In fact they could just be mimicking sounds they heard, and not even speak the English language and they would still be correct even if they didn't know what they were saying.
The idea that truth is somehow only as good as the person who says it is just a political move, to use phony degrees to spread misinformation. I mean you could get a degree in sociology right now, and have absolutely no idea how Society actually functions... all that degree means now is that you can regurgitate BuzzFeed rhetoric proficiently.
On a side note My Philosophy professor sucked... he was good at remembering quotes from Socrates, Plato, Aristotle... but was so functionally close minded I couldn't explain to him the fact that we see in two dimensions and only the illusion of a third due to extrapolated depth.
Which was simply me talking about how funny it was to hear kids scoff at older console games for being in 2D, when in reality a 3D game is a two dimensional composite of a three-dimensional calculated space, which is then displayed on a two-dimensional surface and received in two dimensions by your eyes.
So if having a degree in philosophy makes you that simple minded, I'm glad I don't have one... But then again neither did Socrates or Thales.