Jandila comments on Don't Get Offended - LessWrong

32 Post author: katydee 07 March 2013 02:11AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 08 March 2013 01:07:11AM *  9 points [-]

Don't get hurt. Pain is natural and very easy to experience, but it interferes with your capacity for rational thought, and that's clearly suboptimal!

Comment author: katydee 08 March 2013 09:08:42AM 2 points [-]

Ironically, the text of your post seems unambiguously correct to me.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 March 2013 03:34:44PM 1 point [-]

Yes. That's because what I'm riffing on is the superficially-reasonable nature of your statements here. That's kind of the idea behind sarcasm -- tone and context alone make the difference between two very different readings of the same utterance.