I’m glad you are willing to treat both groups the same. I suspect many on this site wouldn’t and would take pains to explain how they’re entirely different :)
Maybe I'm just not smart/eloquent enough to come up with a response like GP, but often I'll have arguments in my head where it looks like:
- make a point A
- oh, counterexample with point B
- ehh that's a good point logically...
but I'll just go with point A anyways, especially when point A is something generally optimistic, and point B is cynical.
I don't like going into social arguments for this reason - it's very easy (and often logically correct) to create an ad-absurdum counter-argument to a lot of our general social beliefs.
But to be a functioning human being, sometimes you just have to take the optimistic choice regardless. I know that certainly when I was constantly listening to B, I was depressed out of my mind; would rather be "delusional and stubborn" on some things than depressed.
Twice two might not be five, but it keeps your sanity.
sigbottle|1 year ago
- make a point A
- oh, counterexample with point B
- ehh that's a good point logically...
but I'll just go with point A anyways, especially when point A is something generally optimistic, and point B is cynical.
I don't like going into social arguments for this reason - it's very easy (and often logically correct) to create an ad-absurdum counter-argument to a lot of our general social beliefs.
But to be a functioning human being, sometimes you just have to take the optimistic choice regardless. I know that certainly when I was constantly listening to B, I was depressed out of my mind; would rather be "delusional and stubborn" on some things than depressed.
Twice two might not be five, but it keeps your sanity.