“If it’s not correct in context A it shouldn’t be correct in context B which is almost exactly opposite to what context A looks like”
I mean, the point was that if it is not okay to cite just a full book in a context where the communication is a lot slower, text is a lot longer, there’s an expectation of reading a lot more and so on, then why would it be okay in an online argument where the communication is a lot quicker, texts a lot shorter and you aren’t expected to read at all as much.
To put it in simpler terms: If you shouldn’t assume that someone is going to read a whole book for a citation in your thesis, why would you expect that from someone reading a random internet argument?
AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
You don’t need to clarify anything; you’re just being wrongheaded. First, just because YOU’RE a freak hitting F5 until your finger breaks doesn’t mean asynchronous text is a ‘faster’ medium. No one’s forcing you to talk out of your ass. No one’s forcing you to respond as fast as you can. You have permission to stop replying if the person you’re arguing with is better read than you and you want to incorporate their knowledge base into your own. And if you don’t you’re saying that your ignorance is as valuable as their knowledge.
Why would you expect someone to read something just because someone said “I got this information from here”? My child, no one expects you to do that. They expect you to take their word for it. And if you are so hostile as to be motivated to accuse them of lying, you take on the exercise of exposing them.
I’m astounded by how doggedly you’re asserting your lazy entitlement.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’m just telling you how it works generally in an online arguments. You’re free to post a whole book or a long video as an argument. It’s just that most people aren’t going to engage with that and it won’t work well to prove an argument to the other people. I’m sorry that it upsets you, it’s not my intention.
AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Oh wow I didn’t know I was being visited by his holiness the arbiter of how online arguments should and do work. And by holy decree you’ve asserted that it works however allows you to be the laziest, most bad faith and anti-intellectual.
Hallelujah.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I mean don’t take my word for it, see how internet arguments generally work out there in internet. If you come off with a different idea on how they generally work, then it’s an agree to disagree situation imo.
No need for these sort of outbursts. Against the rules too…