I myself don’t mind being corrected if what I’m saying is bullshit. How else am I gonna learn?
However I don’t know enough about much of anything to correct anyone, and I often notice that such an action is met with much apprehension and vehemence, so I wouldn’t bother.
People would ask me for links and proof, yet counter everything I say with no proof of their own to offer. I don’t wanna deal with people’s egos, and maybe I’m just crazy but a lot of this seems ego fuelled, so the pursuit of information, knowledge and wisdom is often intercepted by such unfortunate things.
I’m certainly not excluding myself from that though, if that’s what anyone thinks. Sadly I’ve done it before, and I’m sure I’ll do it again. Or maybe it’s just self projection. I dunno.
Whether it’s threat or menace, you decide that if you want. None of it is my intent, nor do I think it is that of anyone’s, really. I guess it just happens?
I don’t mean the entirety of Fluther is this way though. I’ve had plenty of awesome conversations with people here who taught me a lot-which is saying a goddamn lot on the Internet haha.