Mallory 🏳️⚧️ on Nostr: "Just asking questions" isn't friendly (no matter how civil or polite you are) if the ...
"Just asking questions" isn't friendly (no matter how civil or polite you are) if the contextual implication is "you must supply an argument sufficiently rigorous to convince me."
That's a demand. It's an assertion that the person "just asking questions" has a greater relevance. It's a behavior of dominance, not of "intellectual rigor" or whatever.
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2024-06-02 16:00:46Event JSON
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