Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones to read their messages

Re:Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones ... by gafferongames on Sunday March 06, 2022 @02:21PM (#30580281)

If you cannot defend a subject without resorting to whataboutism, I would say this instead is intellectual laziness.

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Re:Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones ... by smcl on Monday March 07, 2022 @05:47AM (#30586255)

More often than not when I've seen "whataboutism" used here it means "You can't say that (about me), I said it (about you) first!" which is in my opinion, intellectually lazy. There are times when a bad faith whatabout-ist argument is made as a diversionary tactic and they are frustrating, but the original comment[0] we are discussing does not feel like that to me. In fact the comment they were replying to is making the lazy and intellectually lacking argument.

[0] = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30579098

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Re:Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones ... by User23 on Sunday March 06, 2022 @07:02PM (#30582545)

I wouldn’t call Socrates intellectually lazy.

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Re:Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones ... by gafferongames on Monday March 07, 2022 @03:25PM (#30592877)

But what about Socrates?

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