More abstractly, saying X is true, and then when something claims it’s not true, responding with “well I don’t care about X” is very bad form in a debate because if you don’t care about X you should not have brought it up.
My point was that there are degrees of caring*, and that caring does depend** on how sincere a person is when claiming not to want to draw attention to one of their points.
* = going from “I don’t give a fuck” to “this is my best friend we’re talking about / I’m paid to give a fuck”, on which spectrum I took the middle position.
** = they don’t want to draw attention to it, fine, let’s respect their wishes. Oh, they were playing reverse psychology on me? Screw them then.
There’s no point in trying to get me to express a plainly pro- or anti-Thiel opinion.
More abstractly, saying X is true, and then when something claims it’s not true, responding with “well I don’t care about X” is very bad form in a debate because if you don’t care about X you should not have brought it up.
My point was that there are degrees of caring*, and that caring does depend** on how sincere a person is when claiming not to want to draw attention to one of their points.
* = going from “I don’t give a fuck” to “this is my best friend we’re talking about / I’m paid to give a fuck”, on which spectrum I took the middle position.
** = they don’t want to draw attention to it, fine, let’s respect their wishes. Oh, they were playing reverse psychology on me? Screw them then.
There’s no point in trying to get me to express a plainly pro- or anti-Thiel opinion.