23 Apr 2009, 11:09 am
23 Apr 2009, 11:10 am
gina-ghettoprincess wrote:
MikeH106 wrote:
Even at the age of 25, I think I understand how you feel.
I used to get really, really angry whenever people told me, "You do it to yourself." Now I just calmly reply, "Scapegoat fallacy," "Fallacy of the single cause," or "Fallacy of shifting the motive." Heck, I have a good number of the fallacies memorized already (which I put to good use on the Politics, Philosophy, and Religion forum very recently
).
It's like they're wearing boxing gloves with their little catch phrases written on them, and they don't even require any thinking to get their point across. Rest assured I'm not one of those people who would tell you that.
I used to get really, really angry whenever people told me, "You do it to yourself." Now I just calmly reply, "Scapegoat fallacy," "Fallacy of the single cause," or "Fallacy of shifting the motive." Heck, I have a good number of the fallacies memorized already (which I put to good use on the Politics, Philosophy, and Religion forum very recently
).It's like they're wearing boxing gloves with their little catch phrases written on them, and they don't even require any thinking to get their point across. Rest assured I'm not one of those people who would tell you that.
I wish I could use those phrases, but "fallacy" is probably an intellectual enough word that it would just get me called a wise-ass. It's like Mum actually WANTS me to be a moron like everyone else. She thinks I put too much effort into sounding smart instead of, well, whatever it is she'd rather I was doing. Which is an invalid argument, because I don't put EFFORT into using "big words", it just happens.
i would suspect a lot of us get that. my mother is SO sick of my big words, and logic, she gets angry before i even try now. whenever i visit her, i go into "do not open mouth"-mode, and only respond to what she says, and with a smile, just so that i can manage a nice dinner, and then go home, without drama erupting.
its frustrating, when logic is banned from emotional outbursts, because i have nothing else to offer. so she screams my skin full, and i can only sit and take it, cus she has the (newest and best) "Logi-Shield-3000" on
23 Apr 2009, 7:25 pm
25 Apr 2009, 1:59 pm
