Comment by dnissley
2 years ago
When I disagree with someone, I do not necessarily think they're stupid. That's a needlessly polarizing mindset.
2 years ago
When I disagree with someone, I do not necessarily think they're stupid. That's a needlessly polarizing mindset.
When I think someone is stupid, I don't necessarily disagree with them. That's a needlessly polarizing mindset.
Also true! Stopped clocks, etc.
You're a rare person, in 2022.
Maybe you could be come one too
https://www.amazon.com/Never-Thought-That-Way-Conversations/...
stupid doesn't end a conversation. It starts it. Ok, someone thinking is different (stupid). But how exactly do they think? Why? What drives? Where does the break or wrong start?
correct - I've learnt different perspectives and expanded my way of thinking
and also learnt many many people do not bother with thinking, and just throw crap out - due to their immediate emotions
What sort of decisions or behavior would lead you to believe that somebody is stupid?
I'll bite
- the ability to explain why you think a certain way or did something (i.e. when you ask a child why they threw a glass they'll say "I don't know"
- the speed at which you learn/process new information
- the ability to understand your emotions and the level of control you have over them
- your willing to engage in debate
- how inquisitive you are
In addition to "I don't know" is "I messed up". Everyone does stupid things occasionally. Stupid people double down on their stupidity once they realize what happened instead of owning up to it.
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Someone who claims to hold a basic concept of something as straight forward as "free speech absolutist" and doesn't see the logical incoherence of proceeding to ban reporters and others who publish and aggregate publicly available information (@elonjet).
I personally agree with this.
Further, I think “somebody that spends an extraordinary amount of money to become admin on a forum (one of the worst jobs on earth)” qualifies as “a stupid person” well before “being incredibly, laughably, hilariously inept at being a forum admin” even gets factored into the “How stupid can a person be?” equation.
Just because somebody does something different than us doesn’t mean they are stupid, how ridiculous and reductive is that?
They might just be evil.
Is it necessary to believe anyone is "stupid" as a personality?
I just disagree with people's opinions on certain things. And if I frequently disagree with someone enough, then I just quietly stop paying any attention to what they say.
How is judging people’s way of thinking as being a binary between “necessary” and “unnecessary” not just calling people “stupid” or “not stupid” the same thing just using different words?
I don't think people are calling Elon Musk stupid because they disagree with him.
If you don't hate stupid people, how do you know that you're smart?
Perhaps not your intent, but you have hit on the entire social media mindset, distilled.
TV debate long ago decided that every complex human concern can be profitably reduced to a crass binary which can be argued about in front of a camera for the audience's thumbs up or down.
Social media democratised this decerebrate approach. A thumbs up or down from your tribe. Mastodon, Post.news et al only replicate the Twitter model.
It doesn't matter which platform PG, or anyone else, is on. They're all worthless distraction. Fiddling while Rome burns etc.
You can tell who's actually discussing a person's intelligence and who's status-signaling how smurt they are because only one group gets terribly offended when you disagree.