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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Being irritated at something dumb is thoughtful. You're pointing out the dumb, which is an insistence on higher thought. An insistence on logic over emoting.
Would you say Lewis black is emoting in his routine? No. The frustration is not personal. The frustration is general, at a lack of competent, rational thinking.
I am not above emoting, but that's limited to things like our pernicious justice system. There, at the unfairness of that shitshow, yes I get offended. But again, it's not personal. You'll never hear me say, "That upsets me," or "that makes me feel [insert]" without offering a valid factual basis for the reaction. Without that, who cares how I feel? If I don't have a concrete critique of that to which I'm responding, I've nothing to say. If all I have is to say "That upsets me," I see no reason to speak.
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Being emotional does not preclude being thoughtful. In your world, when people with whom you disagree (and invariably to your left) say they are offended about something, you say they are emotional in a way that means they are incapable of rational thought, and that gives you license to disregarded whatever they are saying. When you disagree with someone, you are emotional about it, but of course you are always capable of rational thought, definitionally it would seem. When someone to you right with whom you disagree says something, emotional or otherwise, you describe them as stupid, and so it doesn't matter whether they are emotional or not.
All sorts of people get emotional, but when people to your left do it, that's when you call it out, as a way to avoid engaging with their views.
