Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Email on Hkmap.live Doesn’t Add Up

Re:Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Email on Hkmap.live Doesn’t Add Up by rdiddly on Thursday October 10, 2019 @08:31PM (#21220526)

Not the same commenter, but it seems like the lengthy protestations of disinterest are a reaction to the prevailing online climate of exactly the kind of paranoid hysteria embodied in, for example, the assertion that anyone playing devil's advocate is probably on the devil's side so to speak. Being able to hold and consider multiple contrary or incompatible positions simultaneously is in fact a sign of a fairly sophisticated intellect in the process of doing a thorough inquiry.

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Re:Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Email on Hkmap.live Doesn’t Add Up by PavlovsCat on Thursday October 10, 2019 @11:14PM (#21221239)

Even the devil's advocate [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_advocate ] is supposed to cite facts and reason properly -- not claim a falsehood in support of the devil, which misrepresenting the article is.

You can't just precede anything with "just playing devil's advocate for a moment" and make it immune from scrutiny, that's the intellectual equivalent of "just a prank". From the WP article, emphasis mine:

> explore the thought further using a valid reasoning

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Re:Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Email on Hkmap.live Doesn’t Add Up by baddox on Friday October 11, 2019 @02:56AM (#21222153)

I welcome scrutiny, and I disagree with this particular scrutiny.

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Re:Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Email on Hkmap.live Doesn’t Add Up by PavlovsCat on Friday October 11, 2019 @04:42AM (#21222585)

I could have just done the same, and just say "I disagree" without making an argument, but that's not really much of a discussion is it.

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