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Hyperreality@kbin.social 1 year agoYou don’t actually have a “holier than thou” sentence in your comment, but
one which a lot of people would rather deny, rather than admit their part in perpetuating it,
Sure does come close. I think this is the reason why there are such negative reactions to your top level comment.
Meh. It's cognitive dissonance and vanity. We're all narcisstic to a certain degree.
We all lie to ourselves that we're good people doing our best, at least to a certain extent. Tell someone they're not, point out the specific ways that they're horrible (because they're human), and they're forced to reconcile these two contradictory pieces of information. Invariably people act emotionally and lash out.
It's predictable. As I said, it's a reality a lot of people would rather deny than admit.
I think you need to lie to yourself at least some of the time, or you'd kill yourself. Lie to yourself too much, and you become president.
What if I told you you can gently lead people to conclusions rather than trying to bash them over the skull with them? You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. If you want to do any good with your words, a more gentle approach will get you further.
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Note they’re not attacking your argument at all, merely calling out the fact that you’re being a pretentious twat. Completely valid, both can be true. No tu quoque. Also it’s quite sophomoric to call out logical fallacies as a gotcha in an argument.