Ah, I see, I guess it's an understandable response if you really think it's them deliberately being condescending. Thank you for explaining!
Maybe I'm just a lot slower to ascribe that maliciousness, but I didn't feel that. My vibe was just that they didn't know what else to say, a position people inevitably get to when they only work with surface reasoning.
I've seen this sort of thing play out before. If you engage them in good faith, they'll ask for a source on your claims, only to dismiss it and demand a different source that agrees with them. Sometimes they are willing to listen, but sometimes they come in and open with smug condescension and only get worse from there, their goal is to suck up all the oxygen in the room and waste everyone's time. Once they're clearly doing that, a quick and succinct PPB gets them to leave.
Ah, I see, I guess it's an understandable response if you really think it's them deliberately being condescending. Thank you for explaining!
Maybe I'm just a lot slower to ascribe that maliciousness, but I didn't feel that. My vibe was just that they didn't know what else to say, a position people inevitably get to when they only work with surface reasoning.
This poster had been shown quite a bit of patience and decent arguments and continued to just be a debate nerd. It was justified violence.
I've seen this sort of thing play out before. If you engage them in good faith, they'll ask for a source on your claims, only to dismiss it and demand a different source that agrees with them. Sometimes they are willing to listen, but sometimes they come in and open with smug condescension and only get worse from there, their goal is to suck up all the oxygen in the room and waste everyone's time. Once they're clearly doing that, a quick and succinct PPB gets them to leave.