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[–] [email protected] 139 points 3 weeks ago (22 children)

I've had an unreasonable number of arguments against people who seemed to think animal was a synonym for mammal. Thankfully, we're now in an era where you can look it up and show them now mobile data is cheap, so it's become a winnable argument.

[–] [email protected] 103 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

Except they still don't care, and resent you for edumacating them. Whatever you say, they "win". Welcome to the post -information age.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I rarely judge someone for ignorance unless it is wilful. I pretty harshly judge people who cannot assimilate new information. Over time I think I might be evolving from INTP->INTJ as I age. I used to have more patience and would try to encourage people to learn and adjust.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was very on board with your comment until the Meyers-Briggs pseudoscience BS and then you lost me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

I think it means that as people get older, they get crankier and thus more prone to rush to judgement, just to move things along quicker, rather than take the time necessary to figure out all the nuances and expend patience in trying to actually change things. Though I might be putting words into their mouth.

Although either way I definitely have noticed this trend within myself, especially when I was on Reddit, so it's a real shift imho. And it needs to be fought against vigorously, bc talking rather than listening usually does not lead to the most ideal outcome. That's what I got out of that anyway.

And there's a MAJOR caveat: sometimes judgementalness should be embraced - e.g. patience to tolerate a tanky will never work out well... (The only thing we must never tolerate is intolerance). Young people tend to be too patient sometimes, even as old people trend towards being too judgemental. Young people need to learn more and realize what is known vs. not known yet, and old people need to aim to practice discipline to avoid their feefees from taking over logic as they are always wont to do if given half the chance. imho ofc, which is surely incomplete!:-P

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