No, she’s listing advice that can be used to like someone or remove dislike. And yet she’s shown a solid history of the advice’s complete ineffectiveness (or her belief in its ineffectiveness) when a frequent commenter on her favorite message board is causing her “undesirable peripheral psychological” harm by virtue of her extreme dislike!
If that’s not relevant to showing her advice to be phony, what would be? And why should I have stayed silent on the existence of these two Alicorns?
Alicorn’s time and attention and energy belong to her, not to you.
That forms a large part of why I’ve never suggested otherwise, and of why you figured it would be so hot-shot to pretend I meant otherwise.
Alcorn’s time/etc. do belong to her. The right to exclude my comments from public discussion does not. The right to lie about the tremendous psychological terror I’m inducing in her doesn’t belong to her either.
*Hence the disagreement.*
If you’re trying to get people to think worse of her and better of you, you don’t seem to be succeeding.
If I can be the one person willing to go on record on her “masterful” control of her dislike, I’ll gladly take the minor karma hit … though mine’s actually gone up since I started posting in the discussion, if you can even fathom that.
And yet she’s shown a solid history of the advice’s complete ineffectiveness (or her belief in its ineffectiveness) when a frequent commenter on her favorite message board is causing her “undesirable peripheral psychological” harm by virtue of her extreme dislike!
Of course her advice is ineffective if one has decided to dislike someone. But this is no mark against her, because her advice is entirely about what to do after one decides not to dislike someone.
If that’s not relevant to showing her advice to be phony, what would be?
What would be relevant would be a case where she had decided to like someone, applied the advice in the OP, and yet failed to like the other person. Also relevant would be a general theoretical argument that the techniques in the OP wouldn’t get you (the general you) to like someone even after you had decided that you ought to.
And why should I have stayed silent on the existence of these two Alicorns?
No, she’s listing advice that can be used to like someone or remove dislike. And yet she’s shown a solid history of the advice’s complete ineffectiveness (or her belief in its ineffectiveness) when a frequent commenter on her favorite message board is causing her “undesirable peripheral psychological” harm by virtue of her extreme dislike!
If that’s not relevant to showing her advice to be phony, what would be? And why should I have stayed silent on the existence of these two Alicorns?
Alicorn’s time and attention and energy belong to her, not to you.
You’re free to have opinions about how she uses them, but you aren’t the final arbiter of what she’s doing.
If you’re trying to get people to think worse of her and better of you, you don’t seem to be succeeding.
That forms a large part of why I’ve never suggested otherwise, and of why you figured it would be so hot-shot to pretend I meant otherwise.
Alcorn’s time/etc. do belong to her. The right to exclude my comments from public discussion does not. The right to lie about the tremendous psychological terror I’m inducing in her doesn’t belong to her either.
*Hence the disagreement.*
If I can be the one person willing to go on record on her “masterful” control of her dislike, I’ll gladly take the minor karma hit … though mine’s actually gone up since I started posting in the discussion, if you can even fathom that.
I reply to this point here.
Since you’re being so thorough, want to reply to the rest of the comment? Or do you feel that was done adequately elsewhere?
Of course her advice is ineffective if one has decided to dislike someone. But this is no mark against her, because her advice is entirely about what to do after one decides not to dislike someone.
What would be relevant would be a case where she had decided to like someone, applied the advice in the OP, and yet failed to like the other person. Also relevant would be a general theoretical argument that the techniques in the OP wouldn’t get you (the general you) to like someone even after you had decided that you ought to.
Because your criticisms do not address the OP.