> If they had, they wouldn't systematically resort to baseless appeals to authority, whose only purpose is to intentionally avoid having to present any semblant of an intelligent reason.
This is pretty much what I was talking about. It assumes the worst about someone before hearing them out.
It’s a pretty unreasonable assumption to count every reference to Alan Kay’s quote about OOP as a “baseless appeal to authority”.
Perhaps the person has given a lot of deep thought about the matter, and have reached some reasonable conclusions. If you dismiss the person, you’re just cheating yourself of an opportunity to learn and engage in intelligent conversation. And blindly insulting the person.
This is pretty much what I was talking about. It assumes the worst about someone before hearing them out.
It’s a pretty unreasonable assumption to count every reference to Alan Kay’s quote about OOP as a “baseless appeal to authority”.
Perhaps the person has given a lot of deep thought about the matter, and have reached some reasonable conclusions. If you dismiss the person, you’re just cheating yourself of an opportunity to learn and engage in intelligent conversation. And blindly insulting the person.