I understood what you were saying. I disagree — AmadeusD
You are disagreeing with something that's been reported on and dissected for a long time. You're not disagreeing with me, you are disagreeing with Popper and you have to make an actual counter-argument. This is not a forum where you just say "I disagree" and leave it at that.
and think the reason you're saying this is disingenuous — AmadeusD
What about this is disingenuous? It's an observation of society through the lens of Popper's stated paradox of tolerance.
Everyone who is thrown under the bus for a vague association with some group you (and many others - me included, don't get me wrong) have deemed unacceptable. I would, almost surely based on our exchanges, come under some similar description for you (if not, fine, that's what comes across in our exchanges, though). — AmadeusD
What are you talking about? You seem so triggered by the philosophical discourse around free speech that you are unable to argue outside of whatever group
you,
yourself, has attached yourself to. It's not any of us who've put you in some group, it's
you and then you're operating on some anger against others that for us makes no sense, especially not within the context of a philosophical discussion. Philosophy is about the ability to argue outside of such biases and if you are experiencing a cognitive dissonance when involved in a discussion like this, then maybe you should take an introspective breath and ask yourself if you're the one putting people and concepts in simplified boxes rather than other people.
From what I can interpret, you seem to have positioned yourself as a free speech absolutist and you're defending that position not with philosophical arguments, but with arrogance and hostility.
The fact is that Popper and other philosophers of his time recognized through what happened in 1930s Germany, freedom of speech absolutism can be used to radicalize an entire population who weren't extremists before hand. It was part of a powerful toolset of reprogramming a population's core beliefs and it's still a powerful tool today when the way its used isn't recognized.
So when we speak about freedom of speech absolutism, its history and the philosophy around that subject, that's not an attack on your personal beliefs, it's a deconstruction of the subject. When you lash out in the way you do, that just perfectly shows us the cognitive dissonance at play. The inability to form a proper argument, the constant emotional, arrogant and childish bully-speak... how can anyone take you seriously when that's the level you operate on? If you're unable to form an actual argument and just attack, you're shown you are unable to discuss this topic further and only operate on the low-quality level that this forum have rules against.
Act like an adult or be treated like a child.
Quite frankly, you are not being a reasonable person using phrases like this, and the following line. "No one thinks you're cool" is honestly one of the most ridiculously childish things anyone has ever said to me on this forum. — AmadeusD
You're just continuing the "you too" rhetoric that children uses. If someone recognizes your behavior as childish, you simply say that back believing you've leveled the playing field. When I say "no one thinks you're cool" it simply means that your style of writing seems to revolve around compensating the lack of an actual argument with snark irreverant comments to try and disguise its obvious
argumentum ad lapidems and it comes off as sounding like someone desperately trying to sound cool to mask this inability to actually engage with the philosophical discussion.
The silliness of your position is writ large with the example I gave. Hitler loved dogs, therefore, we should probably demonize people who love dogs - is literally the exact same logical throughline as "anyone who is a free speech absolutist should be demonized because some number of them are POS's" — AmadeusD
That's your strawman right there. Can you see it? Can you see the fallacy you're making in your reasoning that is the foundation of all your quick emotional remarks? - The inability to understand that when I say that
free speech absolutism is used by extremist groups to move goal posts and radicalize people; the same observation Popper made in the 40s, that's not in your strawman simplification the same as "anyone who is a free speech absolutist".
What is telling about all this, is that
the way you defend your position is in such a loaded political form that you're not doing philosophy here, you're lashing out a personal belief, an evangelical defense of that belief rather than an examination of what the absolute state of free speech means. This kind of evangelical behavior is also not allowed on this forum. Strawmanning and changing other's arguments in order to make evangelical defenses of your beliefs is not philosophy and belongs in the cesspool of other internet debates that does not have the stricter rules this forum has to cut out that low quality writing.
Are you 'triggered'? ;) — AmadeusD
No, I'm not, I'm simply observing someone with a bully mentality trying to make some personal win for his beliefs rather than engage the topic in a philosophical way, and not recognizing how futile this behavior is and how the thin veil of this tough guy attitude is transparent for anyone.
Yes, that's right. I dishonestly approach conversations by refusing to even read your posts before commenting. When I do comment, its pure luck that things I say i directly relevant and cause us to continue exchanging. Mhmm, Totally reasonable position.
You are just constantly attacking the person in these exchanges, so I don't care to shy from sarcasm. — AmadeusD
But you're not though. You've not ever once engaged with the actual argument on free speech absolutism. You've evangelically defended your beliefs, without even attempting to address Popper's tolerance paradox in any meaningful way. That's what I mean with you not engaging with the topic in honesty. And this continued sarcasm just continues to prove my point about your dishonest engagement in the topic. You're not here to discuss it, you're here to defend your personal belief and through an obnoxiously silly and childish behavior avoid any criticism. Again, what are you attempting to do here?
Are you referring to the thorough walls of text I consistently lay out in response to most exchanges I have here? — AmadeusD
You've not engaged in what I said with philosophical scrutiny, you've lashed out with a strawman simplification and downright inability to understand what I wrote, some emotionally triggered defense that you're just escalating over and over and then try to point out, "no, I'm actually writing good long arguments". Saying something is not the same as actually doing it and you've not once engaged with the core of my argument, you avoid it like a plague and continue with your short-burst snark attempts at edgy counters. It's actually like talking to a child.
I get fed up with others sometimes, and so i become terse or curt. That is exactly how everyone in the world with a brain responds when things are going no where. I simply do not care what your moral assessment of me is. I would expect you to feel the same in reverse. — AmadeusD
You are on a philosophy forum, with clear rules of engagement. It's meant to keep the people away who "get fed up with others sometimes" because that's not the level a philosophical discussion should be operating on. If you don't understand where you are, and what the rules of conduct is, then that's on you. Grown-ups are able to control their emotions, especially in places that try to focus on intellectual discourse.
It's not a moral observation, it's an observation of someone failing at the very thing this forum is about. It's you who have decided that things
go nowhere, yet you've not gone in the direction of the argument I've made, you've invented your own situation in which things go nowhere in order to try and back up not having to engage with the direction a discussion is actually going.
This avoidance behavior informs that you've hit a wall or can't engage with the discussion honestly, not because you can't, but because the cognitive dissonance it triggers puts you in the fear of having to examine your core beliefs. But doing actual philosophy is to always examine and question your core beliefs. If you're not up for it, go to Twitter or similar channels where beliefs are shouted into the void. In here you can't interpret a criticism of something you believe in as some attack on you personally and then expect to be in the right by trying to bully that criticism away.
When you cannot read clearly, or understand what someone is saying, you will certainly fall back on claims such as this. Common. My posts speak for themselves, though. — AmadeusD
Again, you're trying to just flip the criticism you get back at where the criticism came from. It goes nowhere for you. This kind of behavior just leads to eye rolls as it's an obvious attempt to psychologically win an argument. But it doesn't work on people who've seen this stuff a million times before. It's almost a form of easily recognized rhetorical archetype behavior. And your posts speak for themselves in that emptiness, that's true.
This is in your head. I cannot possibly pretend to take this seriously. — AmadeusD
I don't think so, I think you genuinely believe that this bully behavior of yours works as a defense, but it doesn't. It just informs on what level you operate in philosophical scrutiny.
Your eyes, Christoffer. Yours. And I do not care about your assessment there, because in my eyes, you're doing exactly what you've charged me with. So be it.. — AmadeusD
Again, you try to flip things around. It's a constant and repeating pattern that just repeats the same empty point over and over. And what I mean by "us" is that you've been criticized for this before, not just in this discussion with me. So yes, more eyes than mine and the way you are being criticized is not in the way you operate. If I deconstruct your rhetoric and behavior, that's not the same as conducting that behavior. I'm doing this in order to push you into making an actual argument rather than continue down this path of low-quality writing that you constantly continue with. But I'm starting to see that you are unable to, since you've demonstrated very little effort to attempt any philosophical scrutiny. Even after constantly being asked for an actual counter argument, you continue to avoid doing so. The proof is in that pudding of your rhetoric.
I've responded to this. — AmadeusD
You have not. Where can I see this argument in opposition of Popper's tolerance paradox for which I've been talking about as the core premise of what I wrote? Stop saying that you have done so and actually show it? Where is it?
That you did not get it should have had you asking for clarification — AmadeusD
If you are vague and unclear and being asked to clarify, that's what you should do. This is not a place for you to make plaque statements of your beliefs or anything like that. Again, you don't understand what philosophy is about. This kind of rhetoric is exactly the subliminal "you're too stupid to understand my point" that people who want to avoid a deconstruction of their beliefs make as a form of defense in order to avoid that introspection. You've not made any counter arguments at all and if asked to clarify you should do so on a forum like this, not behave like this is your personal place to shout your beliefs.
not attacking me and devolving into an angry teenager because I didn't accept your views. — AmadeusD
Again, trying to flip around who's doing what here. You get criticized for acting like a child and then you try to swing that same criticism back. These are such obvious rhetorical tactics that it's getting old. You lashed out with a strawman interpretation of my argument, gets called out for it and then starts to behave like a child would do, trying to bully yourself into respect and when that doesn't work, trying to blame others of doing what you are doing. It's this behavior that is childish, because this is how children acts when emotionally pushed. And you're only indirectly pushed because your core beliefs are criticized within the topic of this thread, leading to a cognitive dissonance triggering this behavior. So you fail at engaging with the topic philosophically, and instead falling back on a rhetoric more fitting of Twitter than this forum.
You do know that your idols can be wrong, right? Like Popper is probably wrong here? LOL. — AmadeusD
Here you go again, saying something without demonstrating anything. You've not addressed why he is wrong, you're just "LOL"-ing your way out of it... like a child.
Why is he wrong, what's your actual counter argument? How many times do I have to ask you to make a proper argument? It's this simple thing that makes all your avoidance behavior and bullying attempts echo empty.
I fully undertsand that you're taking those positions on board and feel they're correct. — AmadeusD
Again, here you try to flip things around. You're the one who's behavior out of some core belief because you're not explaining your philosophical argument, you're just in a desperate defensive mode. You're talking about yourself and that's not me saying it, it's the very fact that you avoid making actual counter arguments to the philosophical argument and then just demand to be taken seriously by force.
I have no idea how its even vaguely possible that you're having this breakdown in understanding given how direct I was on this point. — AmadeusD
Can you point to your counter argument of the tolerance paradox? Other than you just saying "there's no paradox" without any further reference to what that means in opposition to Popper's arguments? You're failing philosophy so bad here that I wonder, why are you even on this forum if you can't engage with these topics honestly?
Given I have out-right said that I'm not - at what point would you tell someone to piss off when they wilfully misrepresent you to support insane passages like this: — AmadeusD
So what is it that you are defending really? You are obviously arguing for freedom of speech absolutism, so why are you evangelically promoting it without engaging honestly with the criticism of it? You're rhetorically behaving in the very same way as extremists do when championing freedom of speech absolutism and you're not proving to be otherwise.
If you actually had an argument that engages with the problems of that ideal in an honest and philosophical way, there would be no problem, but when you behave and argue in the same hostile way around this topic as those who use freedom of speech absolutism for their own agendas, then what should people think of you and your way of arguing?
Prove you understand the topic, prove that you can argue for freedom of speech absolutism instead of this constant low-quality bully behavior. No one cares about your beliefs and convictions if you can't make a true philosophical argument for it and address the issues raised with it. Do philosophy please, or why should we bother even talking to you otherwise?
??? For me, it's getting very close. This has become an exercise in watching how badly I can be talked past. It is not interesting. So either dispense with the personal garbling in your response, or accept that you wont get replies. — AmadeusD
Is it "personal" to ask you to behave in line with what this forum is about instead of behaving like a child trying to bully himself to winning an argument?
It's your attitude that spawns the criticism of your behavior. Do you see me engaging with any other in the same manner? No, because they can discuss the topic on the philosophical level appropriate. Maybe you should ask that question instead, why do you get this deconstruction of your behavior and not others? And the reason why I take time to write all this? I don't like bullies and I especially don't like them infecting philosophical discussions.