CriticalSteel comments on Intro-level training materials for rationality / critical thinking - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 24 November 2011 07:13:20AM *  6 points [-]

I tell people about the flaws in their arguments and theories and suddenly I AM THE ONE who's being arrogant.

Your comments were full of implicit and explicit signals of condescension towards the people you were talking to.

I find its verry common for people to start to criticise me personally after i have identified a number of critical thinking fallacies in their arguments. This conforms to the definition of an ad hominem fallacy. "the fallacy of attacking the person offering an argument rather than the argument itself."

It would only be an "ad hominem" fallacy if I was pretending to attack your argument: if I used an attack on your person in order to undermine your position. But I'm not doing that : I'm attacking your person, in order to have you improve your attitude, regardless of what position you hold.

I really don't give a shit about your position on 9/11 or vaccination. As I'm not an American I really don't have an emotional investment on your government being innocent or guilty on these issues. I find your government already significantly much more guilty on worse issues than these two.

Most often they criticise my tone,

They properly criticize your tone, because your tone is absolutely horrible. Grow up or go away. This is a place for civilized discussion.