Crash Course: How to avoid pissing people off in /r/NFL

Again, this comment is kind of the point of about half of my post.

And again, you defend your own behavior which goes against your own post by using alternate rules.

It's fair to say we both think the others behavior is simply unacceptable.

You're the kind of guy who feels the need to stand up and defend the most popular opinions of all time because, somewhere, someone might disagree.

I think it is more than a slight reach for you to make a claim that I have any sort of "complex" on the context of one post, and to use words like "dangerous", "attacking", "audacity", "endangered" is not really warranted here. We're having a discussion, not a trial.

You spent the majority of your post not discussing the point at hand, but engaging in a condescending pedantic analysis of my usage of words. Protip: These words aren't used in court either, I don't understand why you would imagine this laymans non-legalese language would have a place in a court.

We're having a discussion,

The irony is that we're not having a discussion because you are not responding to the discussion, instead you're being a pedant and breaking down my post not based on its content and message but on a technical level attempting to discredit it because of the verbiage in use.

So, let's do it to you:

  • Rule 5 violation: It's an asshole move to use the majority of your comment to pedantically and condescendingly attack the language of someone, while simultaneously chastising them for not staying on topic in a discussion.

  • Rule 6 Violation: You don't know the first thing about court, which makes your offensive pedantry even more out of place. This isn't a trial, but don't tell you, as you spent 1/2 of your post "judging" my language.

Rule 7 Violation: instead of trying to see my perspective, you used illogical pedantry to attempt to discredit me, not based on content, but based on stylistic choices like language choice

Rule 9 Violation: I am not afraid to call it like I see it, and you instead rejected that. You didn't let me call it as I see it, instead, you tried to pedantically reject my argument for using the wrong words.

I hope you can see how your "rule system" is nothing but horseshit and how you yourself did nothing but violate half of the rules in your condescending "rejection" of my argument based purely around the fact that I used bigger words than you're comfortable with.

What a fucking joke.

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