interesting thing to try and suss out: is a friend framing a POV in a deliberately contentious way for engagement, or is that just how they see and think about things? And what is their actual preference for the kind of engagement? I bet there’s an old Russian novel about this
I suppose it’s more intuitive if you talk about this in terms of “drama”
the “if it quacks like a duck” Occam’s razor interpretation is, if a person is always surrounded by drama, well they must at some level enjoy drama, or its pursuit.
But also I think it’s true that some people genuinely disdain drama yet have an intrinsically contentious POV
But also I think it’s true that some people genuinely disdain drama yet have an intrinsically contentious POV
doing a proper analysis for this can get ludicrously complex, one question leads to another and next thing you know you’re reading Jung and watching Mean Girls trying to understand all of society just so you can figure out wtf is Stacey’s deal
“well what does free will mean exactly”
“is ‘accidentally-on-purpose’ a meaningful concept”
“how do you fairly judge an individual with conflicting motivations”
“what is justice really”
etc etc
“is ‘accidentally-on-purpose’ a meaningful concept”
“how do you fairly judge an individual with conflicting motivations”
“what is justice really”
etc etc
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