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by caskance 3919 days ago
Obviously people can be manipulated into believing anything. Especially by charismatic media figures. It's incredibly condescending of you to believe that people only disagree with you because they don't know any better. Especially when you try to pull that shit on me.

I care about whether the food I eat contains beef, but I don't think that you or anyone else is ignorant for not caring. As if I only had to educate you about the proper Hindu way and then you'd recognize that it mattered after all. I accept that different people have different beliefs. Why can't you and all the other religious whackos have the decency to do the same? Obvious answer: you don't even see it as a religion. To you it's just truth. Well, you're not the first.
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Nadya 3919 days ago
>It's incredibly condescending of you to believe that people only disagree with you because they don't know any better.

Please don't skim read. I see we're done here.

>(but not always, its also possible I can be wrong too :) ) \

>I care about whether the food I eat contains beef, but I don't think that you or anyone else is ignorant for not caring. As if I only had to educate you about the proper Hindu way and then you'd recognize that it mattered after all.

I disagree. I'd be ignorant as to why I should care. What if I tried to feed you beef and didn't understand why you became angry with me? Obviously this is a problem of my ignorance - fixed by education. Ignorance is not a bad thing. People cannot be expected to know everything.

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caskance 3919 days ago
Why provide a TLDR section that you feel doesn't accurately represent what you said?
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Nadya 3919 days ago
If I wanted to repeat each word and include all the nuance the TL;DR would fail to be a TL;DR. It would be a repetition. If I thought I could fit eight paragraphs of my thoughts into a single paragraph without losing nuance, I wouldn't take eight paragraphs to express my points.

The point of a summary is to get rid of formalities for the sake of brevity. I feel I summarized my points well and accurately, and the purpose was to save time for those who do not wish to read 8 paragraphs. The trade off is that any formality and nuance is lost in the summary - and you took that lack of formality and ran with it by putting words that weren't there in the summary.

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caskance 3918 days ago
What did I read into your summary that wasn't there? You were talking about the need to "educate" people so that they can agree with you.
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