Thursday, 20 May 2010

On Trolling... 18thC style

“Disputes with men, pertinaciously obstinate in their principles, are of all others, the most irksome; except,perhaps, those with persons, entirely disingenuous, who really do not believe the opinions they defend, but engage in the controversy, from affectation, from a spirit of opposition, or from a desire of showing wit and ingenuity, superior to the rest of mankind. The same blind adherence to their own arguments is to be expected in both; that same contempt of the antagonists; and the same passionate vehemence, in forcing sophistry and falsehood. And as reasoning is not the source, whence either disputant derives his tenets; it is in vain to expect, that any logic, which speaks not to the affectations, will ever engage him to embrace sounder principles”. - David Hume.

And so what goes around comes around, for gods sake stop engaging the trolls. If a poster won't take your logic move on he's only winding you up and feeding of your righteous indignation. ;o)

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