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Re:US Should Create Strategy by End of '22 to Reduce Increas... by colechristensen on Thursday December 02, 2021 @07:22PM (#29424996)
It’s not going to reach me because you don’t have a point besides a gut feeling and a sense of moral superiority. If you have no words then don’t use any, unlike what you’ve done here. If your opinions were driven by practical reason and concrete goals you could discuss them and even come to an understanding of different opinions based on differing priorities but instead it’s like I don’t believe in your god so you can’t fathom how to discuss your position.
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Re:US Should Create Strategy by End of '22 to Reduce Increas... by DyslexicAtheist on Thursday December 02, 2021 @07:53PM (#29425255)
> it’s like I don’t believe in your god so you can’t fathom how to discuss your position

I reflected on your comments and it's a shame because the interesting points you made got completely drowned out by you entering the chat with hostility:

> This is nonsense,

it's impossible for anyone not to immediately become defensive after reading this.

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Re:US Should Create Strategy by End of '22 to Reduce Increas... by colechristensen on Thursday December 02, 2021 @08:29PM (#29425537)
Too bad, your way of emotion driven arguments about the real problems the world faces is the threat to solving them and I am unapologetic for my hostility towards that attitude.

If these problems are going to be solved, they will be by people who can survive and continue to engage with people that think their ideas are stupid. There are a lot of bad ideas out there and if we have to coddle them we’ll end up in exactly the echo chambers we already suffer from. Only willingness to be around people that disagree with you to the point they think you’re crazy and not take your toys and go home because people aren’t nice about your opinions is going to enable actual progress.

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Re:US Should Create Strategy by End of '22 to Reduce Increas... by DyslexicAtheist on Friday December 03, 2021 @04:25AM (#29428184)
> your way of emotion driven

don't worry I don't feel a thing when being attacked because I assume the person doesn't know any better. Neither am I here to teach grown men something their mother failed at.

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