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0 pointsmrob6y ago0 comments

>Yes and? why repeat something obvious.

To illustrate that your response was a tautology, and therefore it did not contribute to your argument.

>An opinion itself can never be confrontational.

But an expression of an opinion can be. If I say "I am 100% certain that [thing I like] is better than [thing you like]", that is a challenge to you. And it is not a fair argument if I say it in a context where you can't reply without punishment.

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rowanG0776y ago· 2 in thread

> But an expression of an opinion can be. If I say "I am 100% certain that [thing I like] is better than [thing you like]", that is a challenge to you.

That's not a challenge. It's childish to feel challenged when someone else has a differing opinion. I can't even fathom going through life seeing everything somebody else likes as a thread to something I like.

mrobOP6y ago

>It's childish to feel challenged when someone else has a differing opinion.

I am not objecting to differing opinions, or confrontation. I am objecting to the combination of three specific things:

* An opinion expressed as fact

* which deprecates something

* under unusual circumstances which prevent supporters of the thing being deprecated from responding as they would otherwise be able to

This is clearly violating the rules of fair argument. It is very far from "everything", and I don't recall ever seeing it on HN before.

rowanG0776y ago

There is no argument. That's what you are missing. Someone expressing his opinion is not equal to starting an argument, in any context. Starting the argument is the person who actually starts the argumentation process.

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