Aether – Free, privacy-sensitive public communities

Re:Aether – Free, privacy-sensitive public communities by dhimes on Saturday November 03, 2018 @11:14AM (#18370571)

The problem, however, is that people are unresponsive to arguments. We are not reasonable, unfortunately. People aren't coming to these places to learn. They don't want to learn.

I'm very curious as to how we can get out of this, because I really have a hard time understanding people and this is an enormous laboratory.

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Re:Aether – Free, privacy-sensitive public communities by faitswulff on Saturday November 03, 2018 @11:18AM (#18370588)

> unresponsive to arguments

Not just unresponsive to arguments, but will argue in bad faith, and it takes 10x as much effort to disprove someone's bad contentions than it does to produce them.

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Re:Aether – Free, privacy-sensitive public communities by jonnydubowsky on Saturday November 03, 2018 @10:53PM (#18373850)

I agree with this position and wonder if there is any supporting evidence that speaks to this point that you know of?

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Re:Aether – Free, privacy-sensitive public communities by Lkjhmnbv on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @02:27PM (#18453031)

And since everyone is unreasonable you think someone should be in charge of deciding what's reasonable at the barrel of a gun.

I really don't think you've thought your argument through.

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Re:Aether – Free, privacy-sensitive public communities by southerndrift on Saturday November 03, 2018 @11:41AM (#18370712)

An argument doesn't have to be reasonable. You have logos, pathos, and ethos [1] to convince somebody.

It's like a good sale, you identify what they want and then you show them a more social and friendly approach to reach their goal.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric

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