An absolute right, a definite wrong.
A few years ago, there was a caricature floating around face of two disputatious characters on either side of a numerical figure. From one's insinuated positon, the figure appeared to be a 9, and from the other side, a 6. The image was captioned "Just because you're right doesn't mean I'm wrong". Of course, the same image and idea have been reintroduced to the internet countless times by dozens of different cartoonists and meme pages.
A pretty understandable dilemma, if not at least exaggerated, and I definitely understood the message it was trying to portray. One must be open to hear other's perspectives before forming an opinion on them. Except, I feel the comic did a poor job of conveying the idea due to this one logical fallacy; the image couldn't represent a value of 6 and 9. Here comes the juicy part of the rant.
The hypothetical figure, the core of the debate, was either;
a) Drawn as a 6, in which case only one character is correct
b) Drawn as a 9, in which case only one character is correct
c) Drawn solely to spark the whole argument, in which case ever viewer has succumbed to the cruel trick, is wrong, and has made a fool of themselves.
The moral isn't to be considerate to other's views, it's to inspect the source of the debate.
git gud.
~D
If there's an ACTUAL lesson outta this BS post, it's "morality isn't a relative term."
A pretty understandable dilemma, if not at least exaggerated, and I definitely understood the message it was trying to portray. One must be open to hear other's perspectives before forming an opinion on them. Except, I feel the comic did a poor job of conveying the idea due to this one logical fallacy; the image couldn't represent a value of 6 and 9. Here comes the juicy part of the rant.
The hypothetical figure, the core of the debate, was either;
a) Drawn as a 6, in which case only one character is correct
b) Drawn as a 9, in which case only one character is correct
c) Drawn solely to spark the whole argument, in which case ever viewer has succumbed to the cruel trick, is wrong, and has made a fool of themselves.
The moral isn't to be considerate to other's views, it's to inspect the source of the debate.
git gud.
~D
If there's an ACTUAL lesson outta this BS post, it's "morality isn't a relative term."
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