The saying I heard was “Don’t argue with an idiot. They’ll drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
I heard “don’t argue with a pigeon, they will shit all over the place and play chess” and those words cut deep.
Stupidity is contagious. If everyone is given an equal voice, words of the wise will be drowned out by the thunderous rumble of morons.
Some still try.
Yelling at a rock won’t change it into a rocking chair, neither does yelling at a rock change you a rock.
Behavior and nature are separate, it’s dumb to argue with idiots, but acting like an idiot once doesn’t make you one (necessarily)
I wonder if Confucius was really just a shit poster before the internet
Confucius was really just a shit poster before the internet
I heard he was pretty big in /c/showerthoughts.
Only an idiot would spend their time trying to figure out who the biggest idiot is.
That’s a very good point
Yelling is idiotic.
Like all aggression, resorting to yelling is an act of impotence.
When someone is attacked by aggression they will defend themselves. They will counter attack whatever it is you’re yelling about and make up reasoning to justify their own stance. Even if it’s wrong, because in their mind the actual topic is less relevant than fighting your aggression.
Yelling is only useful if you are trying to prevent an accident and you’re unsure if they can hear you.
Nothing wrong with pointing out when someone is being an idiot. They can go on being an idiot, but at least the truth is out in the open, where it needs to be.
I’m still going to say the idiot
Intent and result matter. If the goal is to provide broader perspective and that is accomplished even to a minimal degree, perhaps neither is the idiot. The idiot is the onlooker trying to decide who’s who
it’s idiots all the way down
Just let society decay without doing and saying anything. “We don’t judge”, “everyone’s free to do whatever they want!”, right? That’s the Western way.
I like your fire
And I like the rain. 😁
in an idiot war both parties are idiots
what a twist!
Whoever hired/invited the idiot.
Two options:
A: Me for reading that instead of preparing for work
B: I won’t engage with nwither of those persons. Carry on and ignore them.The person yelling. Why are you yelling? Will yelling somehow upload the “correct” (you approved) knowledge into their heads? An “idiot” is often someone just doing something differently but even in the case where they are just an idiot, it’s not like they chose to be an idiot, you might as well be yelling at them for their hair color.
