(Nov 1, 2018 10:41 AM)Secular Sanity Wrote: [ -> ] (Nov 1, 2018 02:25 AM)Syne Wrote: [ -> ]Where, pray tell, have I asked loaded questions?
They’re all trick questions. They reduce your opponent’s choice of answers leading him or her to jeopardize their position. That’s entrapment, Syne, and none of us are under any obligation to answer all of your questions.
Cute little declaration without any examples whatsoever.
If you really think you can be tricked by a question, that's on you and your own intellectual insecurity. I can't be. What I can do is misunderstand a question, and then later clarify my answer appropriately, or find the question to be straw man, false dilemma, etc. and point that out. Ignoring a question entirely just looks like avoidance, and there's little reason to do that than an attempt to save face or quell dissonance in light of inconvenient questions.
You're right, you have zero obligation to respond to me at all, much less answer all my questions. But I also have zero obligation to pretend I didn't ask the question nor to avoid pressing for an answer and/or making assumptions. You can only really whine about assumptions you are willing to correct.
Quote:Syne Wrote:You know, before having a simple question avoided so many times that my only recourse is to make assumptions from a lack of response.
If you won't answer simple questions, people can only make assumptions. If you don't like the assumptions, answer questions or correct them.
Well, you heard him. Answer his questions or else.
There's no "or else" there. It's a natural consequence of people trying to decipher each others positions without enough info.
(Nov 1, 2018 03:12 PM)Leigha Wrote: [ -> ]That's right, SS. Not immediately answering questions isn't an indication of anything, really. Sometimes, it could mean that I'm ignoring the question, but it often means, I just forgot to answer it, and might come back to it, later.
Your questions don't intimidate us, Syne. But, if you start name calling in hopes that will bring about a healthy exchange of conversation and ideas, then that's where your fault lies. You should take a page out of Yazata's book of internet etiquette. He always keeps it classy, even if he vehemently disagrees with someone.
"Not immediately"? More like never.
You don't come back to it, even when repeatedly reminded.
Again, where's this supposed name calling? O_o
It's interesting to watch people mistake things as personal, thereby exposing their insecurity, and then arduously avoiding explicitly making the case for their accusations...maybe realizing they were the ones who opted to identify that way.
Notice the complete lack of argument against that supposed name calling being your own assumptions:
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-6193-p...l#pid24511
Yaz is agnostic (belief that nothing can be known for certain); he doesn't seem to
vehemently disagree with anyone. If he did, we'd have to wonder on what grounds.
Interesting to watch the little self-narratives play out in other people's heads.