You should do things that get good results. To a good approximation, that is what “rational” is used to mean around here.
Under this definition, if insulting people gets good results, it is rational to insult people. And if not insulting people gets good results, then it’s rational to not insult people.
It’s like playing League of Legends (or any other videogame that involves talking to teammates). Playing at the surface level, you just play the game by controlling your in-game pawn, and you talk to your teammates just based on what you want to say. But the things you say to your teammates are also directly impacting the game—the rational use of one’s keyboard in this situation is to try to type things that increase your chances of victory, and not type things that decrease your chances.
Are you implying that you believe objective morality bends to the whims of whatever method you need to convince a human to think like you? Are you implying that you believe the fundamental properties of the written and spoken word are just gone in certain instances where humans decide they want to be offended by them?
I am of the opinion that the written and spoken word could never be inherent evil. You appear to be implying that if a human thinks a word is inherent evil then I should treat it as if it is in order to accomplish a “good result”, if I must. What is a “good result”? If a “good result” is the objective most rational end the universe could tend to then compromising on one’s standards because the human has arbitrarily-decided they want you to absolutely does not facilitate that “good result”.
Whether or not a word is inherently evil is besides the point
Would you please actually reformat this post so this sentence you wrote turns into an argument, and one that references the conversation this post is supposed to be a part of, because even if this single remark of yours made sense to me, were I to actually disagree with it and attempt to rebut it I will be taking presumptions and arguing against myself, as this is no argument.
You should do things that get good results. To a good approximation, that is what “rational” is used to mean around here.
Under this definition, if insulting people gets good results, it is rational to insult people. And if not insulting people gets good results, then it’s rational to not insult people.
It’s like playing League of Legends (or any other videogame that involves talking to teammates). Playing at the surface level, you just play the game by controlling your in-game pawn, and you talk to your teammates just based on what you want to say. But the things you say to your teammates are also directly impacting the game—the rational use of one’s keyboard in this situation is to try to type things that increase your chances of victory, and not type things that decrease your chances.
Are you implying that you believe objective morality bends to the whims of whatever method you need to convince a human to think like you? Are you implying that you believe the fundamental properties of the written and spoken word are just gone in certain instances where humans decide they want to be offended by them?
I am of the opinion that the written and spoken word could never be inherent evil. You appear to be implying that if a human thinks a word is inherent evil then I should treat it as if it is in order to accomplish a “good result”, if I must. What is a “good result”? If a “good result” is the objective most rational end the universe could tend to then compromising on one’s standards because the human has arbitrarily-decided they want you to absolutely does not facilitate that “good result”.
Whether or not a word is inherently evil is besides the point.
Would you please actually reformat this post so this sentence you wrote turns into an argument, and one that references the conversation this post is supposed to be a part of, because even if this single remark of yours made sense to me, were I to actually disagree with it and attempt to rebut it I will be taking presumptions and arguing against myself, as this is no argument.