by throw10920 | 2025-07-09 02:38:13+00:00
Your response merely confirms my observations. You are incapable of using high-school level logic, both in the sense that you cannot use logic correctly, and in the sense that you're unable to prevent your emotions from taking precedence, and even worse, you don't understand the purpose of logic, and faced with someone who can apply logic, you are unable to respond logically, and merely lash out emotionally.

>> What are you, one of the LessWrong rationalists?

> Your pretending to be Spock is a character flaw, not something that makes you superior.

You continue your trend of being unable to come up with any good arguments, and resorting to base character attacks that don't even have any meaning, and (amusingly) aren't even accurate. I'm obviously not pretending to be Spock - I'm not speaking in Vulcan or making other Star Trek references, and I'm capable of feeling emotion. That's a pretty pathetic attempt to try to paint the fact that I'm capable of using logic as somehow a character flaw or a weakness - you can't even make a correct analogy to pop culture!

Because you know what one of the differences between humans and animals is? Humans are capable of restraining themselves from acting based on their emotions, and applying logic to determine what a reasonable way to respond is. Being a slave to your emotions makes you like an animal, not a human. It's not a virtue - it's dehumanizing.

> It makes you irrational.

OK, so you just claimed that trying to make you rational makes you irrational, which is factually false, and clearly you literally don't even know the definition of what it means to be rational. That would explain why you're having so much trouble. Go look it up[1]. You've been the exact opposite of rational this whole conversation - not only are you incapable of correctly applying logic (given that every single thing that you've seen that isn't just an emotional outburst has either been a fallacious inference or factually false), but most of the time you don't even try and just fall back on emotion, thinking that it somehow makes you right or proves your point.

People like you are not a good fit for society. The reason why civilization exists is because people are capable of feeling a feeling, then restraining themselves from acting on it emotionally and using their reasoning skills to determine how they should actually act - which is what I'm doing. You're doing the opposite - you're just acting based on emotion. That leads to barbarism and chaos, and destroys civilizations.

Sure, I'm emotionally immature. I'll admit that, I'm not proud of it, and I'm actively working on improving it. But you're the polar opposite - your condescending statements about people who try to act reasonably (like LessWrong denizens and Spock) prove that you're proud that you're not capable of controlling your emotions.

You should think about the fact that civilization came about, and is sustained, by people capable of using their brains over their feelings (even if they're emotionally immature, like me), and is destroyed by people acting like you.

I suggest not responding unless you can make a logically valid point. You haven't made a single one so far, in this entire thread. Your most recent response doesn't even have fallacies in it - just emotion and falsehoods.

I've given up on you being able to convince you of the fundamentally wrong way that you think - it's clear that you're so carnally driven that unless there's a catastrophic event in your personal life, you're not going to change. At this point, this thread just serves as documentation for future readers that those who claim to be against "hate speech" are unable to use logic to either define what that means or make any convincing arguments around it, and are controlled by their emotions. Are you sure you want to add further evidence onto the massive pile that already exists?

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rational