I don’t mean that your reasoning was silly, I mean that the an argument over the interpretation of a word, when you all know exactly what was meant in the original comment, is silly.
So I do think that the topic is unimportant, but my intended message was rather that you two are beating a dead horse rather vigorously. It’s kind of funny, from the outside looking in.
It is not clear to me that it follows, hypothetically, from the fact that an argument is silly, that no one is entitled to be interested in the topic the argument is ostensibly about.
I took “argument” to mean “dispute” in the context, and interpreted the comment as meaning “this dispute is about an unimportant topic”.
If the meaning was specifically that my argument (i.e. in support of my position) was “silly”, then of course the comment—which lacked any attempt at justification—was even more rude.
This is a silly argument.
This is an unjustifiably rude comment.
The fact that you may not personally be interested in a topic does not mean that no one else is entitled to be.
I don’t mean that your reasoning was silly, I mean that the an argument over the interpretation of a word, when you all know exactly what was meant in the original comment, is silly.
So I do think that the topic is unimportant, but my intended message was rather that you two are beating a dead horse rather vigorously. It’s kind of funny, from the outside looking in.
It is not clear to me that it follows, hypothetically, from the fact that an argument is silly, that no one is entitled to be interested in the topic the argument is ostensibly about.
I took “argument” to mean “dispute” in the context, and interpreted the comment as meaning “this dispute is about an unimportant topic”.
If the meaning was specifically that my argument (i.e. in support of my position) was “silly”, then of course the comment—which lacked any attempt at justification—was even more rude.