I can’t place this argument at all in relation to the thread above it. Looks like a collection of unrelated notes to me. Honest. (I’m open to any restatement; don’t see what to add to the notes themselves as I understand them.)
The whole post you’re replying to comes from your request to “Please unpack the references”.
Here’s the bit with references, for easy reference:
You read a (well written) slogan, and assumed that the writer must be irrational. You didn’t read the thread he linked you to, you focused on your first impression and held to it.
The first part of the post you’re replying to’s “Sorry, it looks… best of my ability” maps to “You read a.. irrational” in the quote above, and this tries to explain the problem as I understand it: that you were responding to a slogans words not it’s meaning. Explained it’s meaning. Explained how “Whenever convenient” was a pointer to the “Do I trust EY?” thought. Gave a backup example via the Nike slogan.
The last paragraph in the post you’re replying to tried to unpack the “you focused… held to it” from the above quote
I see. So the “writer” in the quote is you. I didn’t address your statement per se, more a general disposition of the people who state ridiculous things as explanation for the banning incident, but your comment did make the same impression on me. If you correctly disagree that it applies to your intended meaning, good, you didn’t make that error, and I don’t understand what did cause you to make that statement, but I’m not convinced by your explanation so far. You’d need to unpack “Distrusting EY” to make it clear that it doesn’t fall in the same category of ridiculous hypotheses.
I can’t place this argument at all in relation to the thread above it. Looks like a collection of unrelated notes to me. Honest. (I’m open to any restatement; don’t see what to add to the notes themselves as I understand them.)
The whole post you’re replying to comes from your request to “Please unpack the references”.
Here’s the bit with references, for easy reference:
The first part of the post you’re replying to’s “Sorry, it looks… best of my ability” maps to “You read a.. irrational” in the quote above, and this tries to explain the problem as I understand it: that you were responding to a slogans words not it’s meaning. Explained it’s meaning. Explained how “Whenever convenient” was a pointer to the “Do I trust EY?” thought. Gave a backup example via the Nike slogan.
The last paragraph in the post you’re replying to tried to unpack the “you focused… held to it” from the above quote
I see. So the “writer” in the quote is you. I didn’t address your statement per se, more a general disposition of the people who state ridiculous things as explanation for the banning incident, but your comment did make the same impression on me. If you correctly disagree that it applies to your intended meaning, good, you didn’t make that error, and I don’t understand what did cause you to make that statement, but I’m not convinced by your explanation so far. You’d need to unpack “Distrusting EY” to make it clear that it doesn’t fall in the same category of ridiculous hypotheses.
The Nike slogan is “Just Do It”, if it helps.
Thanks. It doesn’t change the argument, but I’ll still delete that obnoxious paragraph.