Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter/X, is floating an idea that he's had before to remedy the problem of social media bots: charging people to use social media.
In hind sight, I should have just ignored them and moved on.
At the time I justified it as warrented when responding to a hostile straw man attack.
The parent comment is in no way a reasonable response to merely quoting from a popular children’s book, and actually shows a failure to comprehend the statement quoted.
Having failed to comprehend the text, the commenter then builds a straw man argument, and gets righteously indignant. They then doubled down on the straw man which is why they’re now blocked: I’ve no interest in engaging with a disingenuous commenter.
If the comment had engaged in a reasoned discussion then my response would not have reciprocated the hostility.
You know, maybe not everyone that disagrees with you is missing the point, although I suppose I should expect someone posting that to think they are always the smartest person in the room.
You’re right, ugly people have done something wrong, my bad.
That’s not what he was trying to tell you. The book doesn’t teach you to assume ugly people are evil. Surely you’ve seen someone with a beautiful face in which you could read hate and it kind of undermined the original beauty. And then there are people born with faces that are very far from standard beauty, but they are so friendly and kind that over many years their grimaces transform their faces into something that becomes a certain type of unconventional beauty. There’s ugly and ugly.
Congratulations on completely missing the point.
In a children’s book.
That literally completely explains itself in the absolute simplest of terms.
There’s no need to be unnecessarily hostile.
In hind sight, I should have just ignored them and moved on.
At the time I justified it as warrented when responding to a hostile straw man attack.
The parent comment is in no way a reasonable response to merely quoting from a popular children’s book, and actually shows a failure to comprehend the statement quoted.
Having failed to comprehend the text, the commenter then builds a straw man argument, and gets righteously indignant. They then doubled down on the straw man which is why they’re now blocked: I’ve no interest in engaging with a disingenuous commenter.
If the comment had engaged in a reasoned discussion then my response would not have reciprocated the hostility.
You know, maybe not everyone that disagrees with you is missing the point, although I suppose I should expect someone posting that to think they are always the smartest person in the room.
You’re right, ugly people have done something wrong, my bad.
That’s not what he was trying to tell you. The book doesn’t teach you to assume ugly people are evil. Surely you’ve seen someone with a beautiful face in which you could read hate and it kind of undermined the original beauty. And then there are people born with faces that are very far from standard beauty, but they are so friendly and kind that over many years their grimaces transform their faces into something that becomes a certain type of unconventional beauty. There’s ugly and ugly.