Pattern-chaser wrote: ↑January 22nd, 2022, 8:44 am Please don't trivialise my argument by dismissing it with a 'joke', ignoring - and distracting from - the serious points being discussed. Thanks.
There is a big difference, I think, between a courteous request and an instruction on "what to write".Ecurb wrote: ↑January 22nd, 2022, 10:53 am Please don't tell me what posts to write, and please don't act as if your brillaint posts are sacrosanct and, like holy scripture, immune from ridicule. I know philosophy form is, in general, a humorless place, but I don't see the harm in an occasional joke. Thanks.
My posts are rarely "brillaint", nor are they presented as "sacrosanct".
There is plenty of room for humour in philosophy too, but perhaps not when it is used to deliberately devalue or derail the subject of another post?
The point I was making - a simple one, and on-topic - has now been sidelined and forgotten. I ask nicely: please don't do this. Thank you.