duedl0r

Stay positive! This is a good incentive to break out of this toxic tradition/behaviour. Now you have a good idea of what not to do. You might even tell your parents this conclusion.

"appeal to authority" is a good example in our current situation. How many doctors are talking crap about Covid? Here lies one of our problem about misinformation. Too many people are just regurgitate opinions of "doctors".

Generally speaking, I like to use fallacies for myself, just to be aware about certain pitfalls. Not so much about discrediting others, but rather not fall into one myself.

If I realize other people are using fallacies to support their argument, it helps me to build an argument against it. Just don't use it naively: "you're wrong because of fallacy number 42". Using it like this is a bad habit, because of the wast number of fallacies, you can probably kill any discussion.

How did you earn the money to invest?

I was going to write the same thing. WTH is this guy thinking. I would never work for such a company.

If you try to educate others, you probably have to ask first whether you're the one being wrong.

First, your quote is not from a post I answered.

Second, it's interesting to have a link to Jung's material. But stating "something is true, since Jung discusses it at length" is just a very bad argument. Why? Because duedl0r said so.

Third, actually, I share your opinion about the quote and all....but the way you wrote your post is not ok for me

It's ok to build strength and character, but that doesn't mean you have to be jerk or a liar at the same time. IMO if you have to lie or be a jerk, it's the opposite of a strong character.

Your argument started with "it's easier to get laid, if I'm a jerk". And now your argument is "it pays to be a jerk in harsh environments". First of all, I hope women aren't included in your harsh environment. Second, you're right. Absolute commitments without exceptions is rarely good advice. There are always exceptions. My criticism is about finding a balance of being a jerk. There is no balance to be attained. There might be exceptions, but not something to balance for.

I'm aware that I feel very strongly about it. That's why I couldn't hold myself back from writing a comment. For me this is very important, because I get the feeling, that humanity is drifting towards dishonesty. It's even expected to be lied at. For example, my co-workers lie to our customers if we missed something or implemented a bug in our software. It's not an option anymore to say to them straight, that we made an error! How stupid is that? The customers wants to be lied at! On the other hand, if they did something they're not supposed to do with our software, they lie about what they really did. This gets me so angry... Sorry, I'm going to stop now.. :)

That's a pretty stupid way of living. But hey, don't mind me, I'm old.. There is no balance to be attained in being a jerk/cheater or whatever. It's like saying: I have the option of breathing or not breathing, so let's get a good balance. No!

If you want to learn from bad people: Do it, but use it for good. For example in identifying people who are bad, or want to take advantage of you/others. But certainly not to get a balance.

And btw, I always hope, people with questionable opinions get screwed by someone with the same questionable view. Let's hope you'll learn your lesson.

a lier has the same arguments, he also believes noone will catch him in his lies...

IMO this is equally short-sighted as not being honest at all.

funny argument. you think it's a horrible idea, propose a flawed way to do it, and debunk it to serve your initial idea. :)

how you do think online voting is done? you really think a simple VPN is enough?

oh, and btw.. I send my tax statement online. let's hope the russians don't have a VPN connection to Switzerland :)

I get so angry about this shit. It's not possible to make a landing page, and actually describe what's going on.

Why do I have to search for information?

Why is it, that all those shitty, shiny looking new homepages are the same. NO CONTENT.

Ok, I'm done. Not interested anymore.

haha. very well informed..