Doesn’t this line of thinking pretty much end up portraying a sort of sociopathic troll — a person who possess no values of his or her own, but who is able to provoke to anger anyone who has values — as the ideal?
The ideal debater is probably not the ideal person
Oh, I agree. And I don’t think we should conclude very much about the value of the Enlightenment from the fact that it’s easy to troll David Brin.
Doesn’t this line of thinking pretty much end up portraying a sort of sociopathic troll — a person who possess no values of his or her own, but who is able to provoke to anger anyone who has values — as the ideal?
The ideal debater is probably not the ideal person
Oh, I agree. And I don’t think we should conclude very much about the value of the Enlightenment from the fact that it’s easy to troll David Brin.