Have you given up trying to get these kinds of emotions to fall in line with your conscious beliefs? Perhaps the Kerchers aren’t evil, but are simply irrational and incompetent in this respect.
No, I’d like these feelings to go away. And I tried to learn more about the life of the driver as an effort to lessen those feelings. But I have a lot of advantages over the Kerchers. I don’t have any doubt that the driver had a year long prison sentence and will never have a license ever again. I have only an emotional problem. The Kerchers have a much deeper emotional problem that also distorts their epistemology. That’s a much tougher situation to be in.
The Kerchers are being irrational and incompetent, but it is a degree of irrationality and incompetence that I’d expect to apply to most humans in similar situations. And there’s a very big difference between “evil” and just “irrational and incometent.” It is I think a difference that is worth appreciating.
Anybody care to explain the 2 down-votes? I was trying to figure out how to show that I read it but wasn’t planning on responding further, and I figured that signalling my appreciation for his response would be an adequate way in this circumstance. Perhaps not though.
It tends to frustrate me when I’m waiting for a response and can’t figure out whether (1) they aren’t planning on one, or (2) they’re just taking a while. This is one of my first attempts to get some practice saving people from that annoyance, but apparently it didn’t go very well.
Explanations on why this was down-voted, or suggestions on a better way to go about this next time, would be appreciated.
I suspect that a comment that had some minimal comment other than just an upvote note might have been better received. Examples would be something like “I understand your position. Upvoted.” or just “That makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.” Although I did make a comment that was almost identical to the second one a while ago that got downvoted.
Edit: See for example this comment by Pedanterrific which seems to have been intended to have a similar goal set.
Thanks. I guess a possible reason why it wasn’t well-received was because maybe it read as “Hopefully he’ll trade rep with me =D” or something. Perhaps any upvote declaration would suffer from that, but especially one that doesn’t have any other content to distract from it or warrant an upvote on its own.
Something like that. A post just saying ‘upvote’ seemed astonishingly pointless to me, and thus “the sort of thing I would prefer to see less of on Less Wrong”, but your explanation was perfectly satisfactory so I reversed my vote (down to up).
I find this sort of thing happens a lot- the first couple downvotes can usually be mitigated by a clarifying edit.
No, I’d like these feelings to go away. And I tried to learn more about the life of the driver as an effort to lessen those feelings. But I have a lot of advantages over the Kerchers. I don’t have any doubt that the driver had a year long prison sentence and will never have a license ever again. I have only an emotional problem. The Kerchers have a much deeper emotional problem that also distorts their epistemology. That’s a much tougher situation to be in.
The Kerchers are being irrational and incompetent, but it is a degree of irrationality and incompetence that I’d expect to apply to most humans in similar situations. And there’s a very big difference between “evil” and just “irrational and incometent.” It is I think a difference that is worth appreciating.
Upvoted.
Anybody care to explain the 2 down-votes? I was trying to figure out how to show that I read it but wasn’t planning on responding further, and I figured that signalling my appreciation for his response would be an adequate way in this circumstance. Perhaps not though.
It tends to frustrate me when I’m waiting for a response and can’t figure out whether (1) they aren’t planning on one, or (2) they’re just taking a while. This is one of my first attempts to get some practice saving people from that annoyance, but apparently it didn’t go very well.
Explanations on why this was down-voted, or suggestions on a better way to go about this next time, would be appreciated.
I suspect that a comment that had some minimal comment other than just an upvote note might have been better received. Examples would be something like “I understand your position. Upvoted.” or just “That makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.” Although I did make a comment that was almost identical to the second one a while ago that got downvoted.
Edit: See for example this comment by Pedanterrific which seems to have been intended to have a similar goal set.
Thanks. I guess a possible reason why it wasn’t well-received was because maybe it read as “Hopefully he’ll trade rep with me =D” or something. Perhaps any upvote declaration would suffer from that, but especially one that doesn’t have any other content to distract from it or warrant an upvote on its own.
Something like that. A post just saying ‘upvote’ seemed astonishingly pointless to me, and thus “the sort of thing I would prefer to see less of on Less Wrong”, but your explanation was perfectly satisfactory so I reversed my vote (down to up).
I find this sort of thing happens a lot- the first couple downvotes can usually be mitigated by a clarifying edit.