FWIW, I regular downvoted your top comment because I find the quote and article misleading, unfair and contemptuously dismissive (as I explained in my comments), but havenât downvoted any of your other comments and havenât used strong downvotes. I didnât find othersâ arguments on this post against person-affecting views objectionable like this, even though I ultimately disagree with them and in some cases pointed out where I think theyâre inaccurate/âgeneralize too much in replies.
I also think the article you shared raises a lot of reasonable arguments against person-affecting views.
Still, I can see why someone might downvote some of your other responses, although I think strong downvotes are too harsh. Mainly, I think your responses misunderstood and/âor strawmanned the criticisms as being just about disagreement with the articleâs conclusions or specific claims (or what they would be if better qualified as opinion, in some cases), and you basically responded âif you donât like it, do your own thing somewhere elseâ, but in civil terms. Rather than just disagreements with claims/âconclusions, itâs the way some claims are framed that we take issue with, specifically dismissively, condescendingly and/âor contemptuously, and treating controversial claims as uncontroversial fact. (And Iâve raised other concerns with the article besides these.)
Thereâs also the mirroring of our sentences you did, which I find a bit mocking, i.e. âIt seems (...) youâre conflatingâ and âSurely those sympathetic to (...), myself included, donât agree.â
FWIW, I regular downvoted your top comment because I find the quote and article misleading, unfair and contemptuously dismissive (as I explained in my comments), but havenât downvoted any of your other comments and havenât used strong downvotes. I didnât find othersâ arguments on this post against person-affecting views objectionable like this, even though I ultimately disagree with them and in some cases pointed out where I think theyâre inaccurate/âgeneralize too much in replies.
I also think the article you shared raises a lot of reasonable arguments against person-affecting views.
Still, I can see why someone might downvote some of your other responses, although I think strong downvotes are too harsh. Mainly, I think your responses misunderstood and/âor strawmanned the criticisms as being just about disagreement with the articleâs conclusions or specific claims (or what they would be if better qualified as opinion, in some cases), and you basically responded âif you donât like it, do your own thing somewhere elseâ, but in civil terms. Rather than just disagreements with claims/âconclusions, itâs the way some claims are framed that we take issue with, specifically dismissively, condescendingly and/âor contemptuously, and treating controversial claims as uncontroversial fact. (And Iâve raised other concerns with the article besides these.)
Thereâs also the mirroring of our sentences you did, which I find a bit mocking, i.e. âIt seems (...) youâre conflatingâ and âSurely those sympathetic to (...), myself included, donât agree.â