I’ll preface with saying that I’m only a random Communist. Please take what I say with a grain of salt, even if I come off as confident.
Regardless of your opinion on the war, it is not going to affect its course unless you go fight there, with a few exceptions.
Unless you live in Russia or Ukraine, your priorities should be:
- pressuring your country’s government for non-interventionism, including sanctions. Capitalist States have only the interest of capital in mind, and their intervention will hurt the people further
- fighting racism in your communities, especially the new wave of anti-Russian hate.
If you live in Poland or Romania, you should also be fighting the racism against non-Ukrainians (mostly foreign students) seeking refuge. Most of them just want to go home. The fact that the police are attacking them is extremely ridiculous.
You are but okay.
You came in here out of nowhere in a discussion that didn’t concern you to call me a dumbass because bad faith means honest engagement. When I demonstrate that I have been honest, you keep changing your definition of what the term means. Now sophistry = bad faith, which is interesting, because many times people use sophistry without realizing it, otherwise wanting to have a good faith discussion. But you don’t even give an example of sophistry in anything I have said. Your entire criticism has been completely detached from the original discussion. Why do you waste our time like this?
Sophistry IS dishonest bud. Dishonesty isn’t limited to just knowingly telling lies.
For instance Bullshit is a form of dishonest sophist rhetoric that is not engaging in outright lying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
Not true. The word sophist comes from a greek class of intellectuals. We only remember them as deceitful because of Plato.
But sophism: “an argument apparently correct in form but actually invalid” can be deceitful but is not inherently so. It’s synonymous with “fallacy”. For example, it’s totally possible to accidentally strawman someone if you don’t understand their real viewpoint. But that’s not deception.
But you still haven’t given an example of sophistry in something I’ve said in this entire thread. You are just arguing in the abstract.
Well then understand me to to be using it in the Platonic sense.
Plato used the word literally to describe a certain class of Greek intellectuals. Unless you literally think I am a Sophist from ancient Greece resurrected in 2022, I don’t think that’s what you mean. Sophist meaning fallacious person happened because of Plato, but long after Plato.
Yes I do in fact believe you are a literal sophist resurrected from ancient Greece.
Now look who’s arguing in bad faith