Trigs
@trigs
This has been my IRL stance my entire life. More recently it has become my default stance online as well. I like smaller groups for expressing dissenting opinions. I'd rather go deeper than wider, most of the time. A public debate used to be reserved for a more professional rhetoric that had been largely worked out beforehand. I think there's room for a balance in there, but in general I'm not interested in public arguments anymore. I find it unproductive.
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
Then you’re wiser than the vast majority of people. For me the discriminant is whether someone is engaging in order to genuinely find the truth, or to merely defend a viewpoint in which they’ve invested some of their identity. If it’s the latter, there’s no point in debating. If it’s the former, I’m interested because I may not have the truth myself but we can get to it together. One way to think of it is whether two people are facing each other in the debate, or are they standing side by side and looking at some “truth object” that they’re looking to uncover without ego getting in the way
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Trigs
@trigs
👏 well put.
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