The Righties and their "Ignore Feature"...

[futurecurrents]

Quote from Eight:

One huge failing of human thinking is that they will step right over all sorts of simple truth chasing complicated lies.. Furthermore, among academics, holding onto their ideas long after they have been thoroughly disproven is just an everyday reality. Maybe being educated is all about that?

Imperfect knowledge is better than no knowledge.

 

[Tsing Tao]

Quote from futurecurrents:

Thank you for another further experimental result helping prove the hypothesis. So far I haven't seen a single "leftie" on the board mention putting someone on ignore., whereas the rightie crowd discuss it among themselves on a regualr basis. PSPR admitted he would just rather talk with folks that agree with him.

The fact is this: IN GENERAL Righties by nature are exclusionary with their inputs. They like things neat and simple and black or white.

By excluding opinions, facts and knowledge that may upset the apple cart of their mind, they have chosen ignorance. They have chosen the ignore feature in their heads.

This propensity to erect walls and stay within a self-determined reality leads to problems when interacting with the outside world.
An example of this is the artificial divide and friction between peoples of different religions. Even between religions which have common cores. Mankind does need any more walls based on ignorance.

This is just an opinion, there is no statistical analysis based on the microcosm of 12 or so users on this section of the forum (plus 20 or so sock puppets). You view people putting others on ignore as their refusal to listen to other people with differing points of view. I view it as a way to avoid "debating" with people who resort to insults and insignificant banter as their only weapon in the debate.

You are correct when you say that more "righties" (at least on this forum) take use of the ignore feature, but what I attribute this to is a higher degree of common sense to recognize that you cannot reason or intelligently debate a chimp, and therefore the best way to remove the chimp's screaming and throwing feces is to leave the chimp to his cage.

When some people just cannot be persuaded of an alternative point of view, why bang your head against a rock trying?

Of course, the fact that those of us who have only some "lefties" on ignore and not others kinda shoots holes in your theory about how we do it to avoid anyone with different ideas, right? If not, then how do you explain us choosing which lefties to ignore?

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from futurecurrents:

... So far I haven't seen a single "leftie" on the board mention putting someone on ignore...

I have.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from futurecurrents:

Imperfect knowledge is better than no knowledge.

Not always.

 

[Maverick74]

Quote from futurecurrents:

So far I haven't seen a single "leftie" on the board mention putting someone on ignore.,

Are you serious? AK47, Ricter, Free Thinker, Trefoil have all put people on ignore. In fact, it's mostly the lefties who use that feature.

 

[Brass]

Quote from Tsing Tao:

Yes, and every step of the way you were insulting and snide. Every single step, and when challenged on it, you fell back on the "I'm kidding!" excuse...

Bullshit once again. Your argument for Buffett to go ahead and pay more taxes all by himself if he wanted the rich to pay more taxes was preposterously obtuse. There is no joke there. And so when I told you to go live with John Galt on his island THAT was when you decided to place me on ignore. THAT was a joke in response to a stupidly obtuse remark on your part. Quid pro quo. Meanwhile, your Buffett argument has lost none of its malodor.

So you see, your "memory" is about as robust about this very issue is it is about your earlier reference in this thread that you didn't recall my ever having posted anything worthwhile. And I once again bring this little item to your attention:

Quote from Tsing Tao:

...other lefties on this site - gabfly, ricter, etc., post lucid, well-thought out arguments. i dont agree with them often, but they at least take the time to understand the issues in which they're talking about...

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2956952&highlight=gabfly+posts#post2956952

It's all about intellectual integrity. Get some.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from Brass:

Your argument for Buffett to go ahead and pay more taxes all by himself if he wanted the rich to pay more taxes was preposterously obtuse.

Bullshit once again.


https://www.pay.gov/paygov/forms/formInstance.html?agencyFormId=23779454

 

[Max E.]

Did the thought ever occur to you that maybe liberals as a hole are just bigger ass holes than those on the right thereby justifying the use of the ignore button? I came to this conclusion a long time ago.....

Quote from futurecurrents:

Thank you for another further experimental result helping prove the hypothesis. So far I haven't seen a single "leftie" on the board mention putting someone on ignore., whereas the rightie crowd discuss it among themselves on a regualr basis.

 

[Brass]

Quote from Lucrum:

Bullshit once again.


https://www.pay.gov/paygov/forms/formInstance.html?agencyFormId=23779454

Once again, you're being absurd. Being the only guy not peeing in the pool provides little comfort. Expecting someone to take that position is as stupid as the link. Either everyone plays or it's not worth playing.

 

[BSAM]

The ignore feature is a nonstarter/really dumb.
The way you ignore somebody is by not reading/responding to their posts.