Albeit if the one says: “I hate everyone else in the world and want to hurt them before they die, and also I have no interest in right or wrong; I am restrained from being a serial killer only out of a cold, calculated fear of punishment”—then, I admit, I have very little to say to them.
Has anyone found a response to this sort of claim? Assuming you don’t think the person is genuinely a clinical psychopath.
If you can get someone to backtrack, how they came to that conclusion, you can probably critique it. But getting people to backtrack is the difficult part. Being able to explain why you think what you think is a rarish skill.
I just hoped there might be some sort of, well, reply to this sort of fake bullet-biting. I happen to know someone who uses it as a fully general counterargument—and they’re pretty good ad redefining their claims so that any contradictions magically disappear when challenged. It’s not unbeatable, but it is exhausting to have to pin them down on a contradiction with what they actually do—and then they can always shrug and say “well, I never said I cared about being well-integrated” and make my head explode.
Has anyone found a response to this sort of claim? Assuming you don’t think the person is genuinely a clinical psychopath.
If you can get someone to backtrack, how they came to that conclusion, you can probably critique it. But getting people to backtrack is the difficult part. Being able to explain why you think what you think is a rarish skill.
Indeed :(
I just hoped there might be some sort of, well, reply to this sort of fake bullet-biting. I happen to know someone who uses it as a fully general counterargument—and they’re pretty good ad redefining their claims so that any contradictions magically disappear when challenged. It’s not unbeatable, but it is exhausting to have to pin them down on a contradiction with what they actually do—and then they can always shrug and say “well, I never said I cared about being well-integrated” and make my head explode.