• @bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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    11 year ago

    Your response was:

    I’m confused, isn’t criticism without alternatives itself useless and pointless?

    It was refuted in detail.

    I quoted the top level comment for context to show that your response was wrong not just in general, but in this particular instance.

    • @agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      My comment was a flippant derision of the hypocrisy of the poster directly above it. I don’t really care about defining pointlessness, as I haven’t really cared about any part of this conversation with you.

      I care about calling out hypocrisy. You read too much into my comment, and instead of letting it stand, as intended, as a directed comment toward the person I responded to, decided to interject with your opinion on pointlessness.

      I repeat, opinion. You refuted nothing, you diverted from my examples to unrelated examples that used similar words. That’s called a “strawman”. The scenarios you refuted were not the ones I presented, you changed them in fundamental ways to justify your opinion.

      I am not interested in this conversation. I repeat, my whole point was specifically the hypocrisy of the comment I responded to. I find arguing about the definition of pointlessness to be even more pointless than anything else.