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On-line aggression. Why is it acceptable?

Zulu · 2012-04-05 10:23:53

Why do we accept overtly aggressive posts? As a society, we are more active on-line, and this affords us the ability to speak & act anonymously. Born out of this is the keyboard warrior. The user who posts with feckless abandon, safe in the knowledge that they post without having to take responsibility for their…

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#92 03-08-2012 09:42AM

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SuperInfinity wrote: »

I'm not going to that site and I'm not interested in your "formal logics" class. If you can't make an adult argument yourself and instead refer to a site where you allege I'm committing one of what they call a fallacy, then I suggest you not bother at all.

Not believing someone or some account is now a "fallacy". Good god, why can't some people think.

Feel absolutely free to visit or not to visit, @superinfinity. The site has a poster of the accepted logical fallacies - very entertaining.

You've made use of the fallacy "I haven't experienced this, therefore anyone who has experienced it is fantasising about it".

Good god, why can't some people think? Heavens, I wouldn't know. Why do you think this might be?

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