To me some of worst commonsense ideas come from the amateur psychology school: “gaslighting”, “blaming the victim”, “raised by narcissists”, “sealioning” and so on. They just teach you to stop thinking and take sides.
Logical fallacies, like “false equivalence” or “slippery slope”, are in practice mostly used to dismiss arguments prematurely.
The idea of “necessary vs contingent” (or “essential vs accidental”, “innate vs constructed” etc) is mostly used as an attack tool, and I think even professional usage is more often confusing than not.
I think it would be useful if you edited the answer to add a line or two explaining each of those or at least giving links (for example, Schelling fences on slippery slopes), cause these seem non-obvious to me.
I actively disagree with the top-level comment as I read it.
I do, however, think this may be a difference of interpretation on the question and it’s domain.
I don’t think it makes very much sense to say that “gaslighting” is a bad idea. It describes a harmful behavior that you may observe in the world.
I think that @cousin_it may be saying, in no conflict with what I said above, that the verbal tag “gaslighting” is frequently used in inappropriate ways, like to shut out a person who says ‘I didn’t do that’ by putting them in a bucket labeled “abuser”. I think this is a reasonable observation [1], but I don’t think this is what the question-asker meant. I think they were seeking bad concepts, not concepts that are used in bad ways.
To me some of worst commonsense ideas come from the amateur psychology school: “gaslighting”, “blaming the victim”, “raised by narcissists”, “sealioning” and so on. They just teach you to stop thinking and take sides.
Logical fallacies, like “false equivalence” or “slippery slope”, are in practice mostly used to dismiss arguments prematurely.
The idea of “necessary vs contingent” (or “essential vs accidental”, “innate vs constructed” etc) is mostly used as an attack tool, and I think even professional usage is more often confusing than not.
I think it would be useful if you edited the answer to add a line or two explaining each of those or at least giving links (for example, Schelling fences on slippery slopes), cause these seem non-obvious to me.
I actively disagree with the top-level comment as I read it.
I do, however, think this may be a difference of interpretation on the question and it’s domain.
I don’t think it makes very much sense to say that “gaslighting” is a bad idea. It describes a harmful behavior that you may observe in the world.
I think that @cousin_it may be saying, in no conflict with what I said above, that the verbal tag “gaslighting” is frequently used in inappropriate ways, like to shut out a person who says ‘I didn’t do that’ by putting them in a bucket labeled “abuser”. I think this is a reasonable observation [1], but I don’t think this is what the question-asker meant. I think they were seeking bad concepts, not concepts that are used in bad ways.