Yesterday, 09:06 PM
(Yesterday, 07:44 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Perhaps, but other people are entitled to express an opinion. Just as we are entitled to ignore them. No response to deliberate pokes is possibly the most frustrating treatment that can be dealt out to any attention seeker.
Of course they are, but intentions matter, I think, and there's a big difference between someone genuinely willing to express their views, and engage in a rational discussion about them, versus someone doing so in bad faith, someone who is only doing it to get a reaction to feed their own ego or to make themselves feel powerful, or whatever. I suppose those are the extremes - and most people probably land somewhere in between, though. Attention seeking specifically, I imagine may have different motivations entirely.
Additionally, I find it hard to believe that someone who acts like heisenberg would have actually formed their opinions on their own. The fact that heisenberg is unwilling to explain why he says what he says seems to suggest this; I suspect he is merely parroting certain talking points without much of anything behind them. At least Alice provides evidence for her opinions, dubious as that evidence is...
I knew someone who fell down a certain right-wing rabbit-hole recently, and you could not get an answer containing any thought from them. Just repetition of the same well-known lies, word-for-word, like they were reading from a script. No logical explanation of why they apparently believed what they did, along with not only a refusal to engage in any sensible discussion, but even going so far as to accuse others of refusing to engage with them - despite obvious attempts at doing so.
It was clear that the things they were saying were not an opinion they had formed themselves, just one they had picked up from somewhere - or had handed to them. In which case, was it really their own opinion being expressed in the first place?