The author expected me to find them creepy -without any particular behavior on their part-.
Taboo “find them creepy”. He was certainly trying to empathize with others’ emotional reaction, but that’s not the same as actively reviling them or finding them horrible. Adding in behaviors after the fact was probably not a wholly kosher argument, but fubarobfusco only insisted on that after you equated unpleasant emotional feelings with deliberate social shunning. So there were multiple sources of confusion in your argument. I suppose I should apologize for not trying to clarify these before—I honestly am not trying to score logical points against you, but I can’t really fault you for thinking that.
regarding them in a manner more appropriate to something crawling up your shoe which I don’t think your comment is really acknowledging
That wasn’t complete—it was modified by this statement:
Treating people as people would be an improvement.
My comment wasn’t just about the -attitude-, but the behavior that arises out of that attitude. Wanting to punch somebody is not the same as actually punching somebody. I didn’t mean to imply that visceral reactions were thoughtcrime.
Taboo “find them creepy”. He was certainly trying to empathize with others’ emotional reaction, but that’s not the same as actively reviling them or finding them horrible. Adding in behaviors after the fact was probably not a wholly kosher argument, but fubarobfusco only insisted on that after you equated unpleasant emotional feelings with deliberate social shunning. So there were multiple sources of confusion in your argument. I suppose I should apologize for not trying to clarify these before—I honestly am not trying to score logical points against you, but I can’t really fault you for thinking that.
Ah. I see where the disengagement happened.
From my original comment:
That wasn’t complete—it was modified by this statement:
My comment wasn’t just about the -attitude-, but the behavior that arises out of that attitude. Wanting to punch somebody is not the same as actually punching somebody. I didn’t mean to imply that visceral reactions were thoughtcrime.