On these types of forums it’s easy to jump into an argument about the technicalities or a post or comment.
You should know, though, that there is a theory called Ways of Knowing which defines Separate Knowing and Connected Knowing. It’s been a part of my masters program I’m taking.
Separate knowing disconnects the humanity and context from what’s being said and tries to only argue the “facts”. But facts, and the things people say, don’t just occur in a vacuum. It often is the case when people are arguing past each other, like on the internet.
Connected Knowing is approaching the thing someone said with the understanding that there is a context, humanity, biases, different experiences, and human error that can all jumble up when people are sharing information.
Maybe even just knowing that there’s different ways to know would be helpful for us to engage in a different level of conversation here. I’m not sure. I just wanted to share!
https://capstone.unst.pdx.edu/sites/default/files/Critical Thinking Article_0.pdf
It’s only pointless if your sole objective is to demonstrate to everyone how right you are about everything.
Or if you don’t want to be a silent accomplice of certain evils in society.
Would you have nice chats with a mass murderer about art?
Sorry you’ve lost me.
We usually lock up murderers to prevent them from harming others. That being the case, I guess you could chat to them about art if you were really interested in that.
That said, if you were trying to prevent future murders of course you’d need to try to understand the murderers perspective.