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[-] space_comrade@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

His agenda was the need to win the argument at all costs rather than assume that someone can have a different belief set.

Yeah that's how Internet discussions work genius, not every discussion needs to end with "ah man it's all so complicated it's ok to have different beliefs", you're allowed to have a strong opinion on things.

Your agenda is to hide behind some vague concept of civility instead of actually engaging in the discussion. Literally nobody forced you to respond to his comment at all if you found it so grating, you consciously chose to be loudly pissy about it.

[-] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No, my agenda is that I am allowed my opinions and I don't have to explain myself if I don't want to. Your argument is that I am required at all times to fully explain everything I ever say. It doesn't work that way, I have a right to disengage. I disengaged with that person and I am disengaging with you. Neither of these conversations are worth the amount of effort I have been forced to expend on them, and that is time and energy that will be lost from me forever.

[-] space_comrade@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

I have a right to disengage.

You had that right also like 10 comments ago. You just have a bruised ego because people on the Internet dared to not just nod along to whatever bullshit you were saying.

[-] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Love it. You go ad hominem when you run out of ideas.

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