I dunno, maybe. I mean, technically they were right but even when I agreed, and explained how while that’s correct it’s also beside the point, they didn’t like that either.
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Neato@ttrpg.network 5 months agoIt’s pedantry for the sake of being right. They care more about winning than the actual argument.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 months ago
luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
It’s like talking about powers and saying “The square of 4 is 16” and they’ll bleat “Actually, a square is a shape” and you’re trying to find a way to tell them that their contribution is absolutely worthless and irrelevant to the topic.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 5 months ago
It’s not even pedantic. It’s that same logic you could use to say killing a person does no harm to them because their body still exists afterward.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This is why I detest the concept and celebration of “technically correct”. No, it’s not the “best kind of correct”, it’s being an asshole.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I mean, in the example you’re responding to, many of the people aren’t doing the “technically correct” answer of, “microbial life will continue”.
They’re just morons who heard, “life finds a way” and assume humans will be fine.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 months ago
That’s the joke, though.
The character being quoted, from Futurama, is usually insufferable and often miserable.