I'm just sick of it, y'know. Talking to that guy gets me nowhere every single time. It doesn't matter what I'm talking about, he's just going to change the subject and gear the conversation to whatever it is he wants to talk about. The best part is, he never actually has a point. All he does is try to deconstruct my point by injecting as many irrelevant topics as possible.
Or his insane leaps of logic "Cars can kill you. Should we outlaw cars too?" "Do you think the population would remain the same after a century?" Or better yet, when he INVENTS your position instead of arguing against your real position, like if you support public education it must mean you think it's impossible to have a system without it, or if you support food regulation you must think our current system is perfect, these absolute statements that get you to defend current systems even though they have nothing to do with your original point, forcing you to do all the legwork to disprove his stupid argument while he never, ever provides evidence of his own.
Or he just moves goal posts and says that I don't understand the bigger picture or moves goal posts because that wasn't what he was really talking about, further diverting from whatever the original commenter was talking about and forcing them to justify their viewpoints by comparing them to completely unrelated things via absurd analogies.
That's why every attempt to reason with him turns into a billion goddamn replies. Eventually he just flounces without conceding a single point no matter how wrong he is or how faulty his logic is, or he just insults you by essentially calling you stupid in a backhanded passive aggressive way.
He pretty much fails every single part of that "how to have a discussion diagram", and I'm not putting up with it anymore. If you want to keep this place civil I suggest everyone else do the same.
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Date: 10/8/11 22:13 (UTC)Or his insane leaps of logic "Cars can kill you. Should we outlaw cars too?" "Do you think the population would remain the same after a century?" Or better yet, when he INVENTS your position instead of arguing against your real position, like if you support public education it must mean you think it's impossible to have a system without it, or if you support food regulation you must think our current system is perfect, these absolute statements that get you to defend current systems even though they have nothing to do with your original point, forcing you to do all the legwork to disprove his stupid argument while he never, ever provides evidence of his own.
Or he just moves goal posts and says that I don't understand the bigger picture or moves goal posts because that wasn't what he was really talking about, further diverting from whatever the original commenter was talking about and forcing them to justify their viewpoints by comparing them to completely unrelated things via absurd analogies.
That's why every attempt to reason with him turns into a billion goddamn replies. Eventually he just flounces without conceding a single point no matter how wrong he is or how faulty his logic is, or he just insults you by essentially calling you stupid in a backhanded passive aggressive way.
He pretty much fails every single part of that "how to have a discussion diagram", and I'm not putting up with it anymore. If you want to keep this place civil I suggest everyone else do the same.