pervocracy: pervocracy: When someone disagrees with you online and demands you prove your point to…
When someone disagrees with you online and demands you prove your point to their satisfaction by writing a complete and logically sound defense including citations, you can save a lot of time by not doing that.
Bro, I’ve known you for twelve seconds and enjoyed none of them, I’m not taking homework assignments from you.
This got a lot of responses from people pointing out that evidence is a key part of intellectual inquiry, discourse, and debate. That being able to support your beliefs is a key critical thinking skill. Which is 100% true.
Except that you don’t actually have to participate in intellectual discourse any time some fucko on the Internet tells you to.
There’s a vast difference between “this is an important thing to be able to do,” and “this is a thing that you must be continuously available to perform in public for any stranger who asks.”
Especially when bad-faith actors are rampant online, and use requests like this as an explicit strategy to dominate online social spaces by sapping the time and energy of people with whom they have no intention of meaningfully engaging.
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Reposted from http://lies.tumblr.com/post/174548869583.
