Point is, adult people can kill each other even with a slap to the face. A simple fight can leave you with wounds that will cripple you for life. Not to mention possible mental and social consequences. Violence is a crapshoot.
But, yeah, it’s a huge overstatement; there’s a mutual assurance of destruction, there’s just a risk, and by “destruction” I mean “consequences that you cannot afford”/”it will ruin your life” rather than “your body will be annihilated into non-existence”.
Well, stop it. I handle harsh criticism well as long as it’s fair, but I’m no good at dealing with teasing, mockery and facetiousness. That kind of stuff really trips me up.
Point is, yeah, taking stuff away by force is easy if you’ve got force on your side, but there’s a mountain of reasons both small and big, both rational and not, that securing consent and consensus is more practical in the long term.
Even Genghis Khan understood that it was better to tax the Chinese cities as a renewable resource than to destroy them, kill everyone, and turn everything into pasture. Although it took some persuading; the man had momentum.
That is hardly ‘plain and simple’; in fact, it is ambiguous. Do you mean “I cannot discern a meaning to this sentence” or “I understand this sentence, and I evaluate it to be false”?
As for “fair criticism”, try for something that, if it were said to you in that position, you would reply to it with a ‘fair enough’/‘you make a good point’.
Point is, adult people can kill each other even with a slap to the face. A simple fight can leave you with wounds that will cripple you for life. Not to mention possible mental and social consequences. Violence is a crapshoot.
But, yeah, it’s a huge overstatement; there’s a mutual assurance of destruction, there’s just a risk, and by “destruction” I mean “consequences that you cannot afford”/”it will ruin your life” rather than “your body will be annihilated into non-existence”.
Well, stop it. I handle harsh criticism well as long as it’s fair, but I’m no good at dealing with teasing, mockery and facetiousness. That kind of stuff really trips me up.
Point is, yeah, taking stuff away by force is easy if you’ve got force on your side, but there’s a mountain of reasons both small and big, both rational and not, that securing consent and consensus is more practical in the long term.
Even Genghis Khan understood that it was better to tax the Chinese cities as a renewable resource than to destroy them, kill everyone, and turn everything into pasture. Although it took some persuading; the man had momentum.
It’s you who decides on the fairness, though, right?
OK. If you want plain and simple, I can try to do plain and simple. This whole subthread started with you saying
This is utter nonsense.
That is hardly ‘plain and simple’; in fact, it is ambiguous. Do you mean “I cannot discern a meaning to this sentence” or “I understand this sentence, and I evaluate it to be false”?
As for “fair criticism”, try for something that, if it were said to you in that position, you would reply to it with a ‘fair enough’/‘you make a good point’.