Re: Future of online fora

On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 20:14:55 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 4/3/2025 7:02 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 4/3/2025 1:09 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 4/3/2025 10:58 AM, cyclintom wrote:

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Frank, you have spent a great deal of your life being
subjective. Or should I say, strongly opinionated?

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WTF??
I consider 'strongly opinionated' to be a compliment.

 
As opposed to "All truth is subjective. All opinions are
valid. Nothing can be known. Ommmmmm....."   ;-)
 
 

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You continually consistently and annoyingly misstate that.
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To observe that personal opinions are, in fact, personal is
not to say that nothing is true.
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But policy preferences from agreed undisputed facts are
areas for discussion and persuasion (or, in extremis,
coercion by those who could not prevail in argument).
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To agree that the speed of light is constant or that E=R/I
or whatever has no bearing on policy preferences, which are
not truths, have no single answer and are inherently personal.
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Oh, and there can never be a lack of such, as long as we
remain human.  Or as noted here recently, the dialectic is
eternal and cannot, by its nature, be permanently resolved.

"You continually consistently and annoyingly misstate that."

If you're dead, it's only the other people who feel the pain...
Same thing happens if you're stupid.

--
C'est bon
Soloman