It seems unreasonable to me to expect all comments on a post to directly answer the explicit questions raised in the post.
Sometimes people highlight unexamined premises in your question that resolve your own confusion! I think such comments are very helpful!
I do not know if AllAmericanBreakfast is correct, but it does not seem implausible to me that wars in the past were confusing to intelligent people living at the time.
(I do agree that there is something about the tone of AllAmericanBreakfast’s comment that can illicit a feeling of irritation. Maybe the last sentence has a bit of condescension to it?)
“It seems unreasonable to me to expect all comments on a post to directly answer the explicit questions raised in the post.”
It seems arrogant to me to diagnose someone with a flawed world model and in need for Rationality 101 just based on a few paragraphs of what I consider to be uncontroversial statements (others might have different opinions but I don’t think my arguments are outlandish), and then just leave it at that, when the post asks for opinions (all other commenters gave opinions).
It seems unreasonable to me to expect all comments on a post to directly answer the explicit questions raised in the post.
Sometimes people highlight unexamined premises in your question that resolve your own confusion! I think such comments are very helpful!
I do not know if AllAmericanBreakfast is correct, but it does not seem implausible to me that wars in the past were confusing to intelligent people living at the time.
(I do agree that there is something about the tone of AllAmericanBreakfast’s comment that can illicit a feeling of irritation. Maybe the last sentence has a bit of condescension to it?)
“It seems unreasonable to me to expect all comments on a post to directly answer the explicit questions raised in the post.”
It seems arrogant to me to diagnose someone with a flawed world model and in need for Rationality 101 just based on a few paragraphs of what I consider to be uncontroversial statements (others might have different opinions but I don’t think my arguments are outlandish), and then just leave it at that, when the post asks for opinions (all other commenters gave opinions).
Mortals have doubts.