Yeah I mean I can understand not everyone wants to be an educator, especially of more ignorant people but when people say this I do wonder why they are even talking. I usually speak to people because I am interested in learning from them or because they’re interested in learning from me. This is the purpose of human communication. If you aren’t interested then the obvious solution is to stay silent.
When out distributing political flyers people will often come up to me pretending to want a conversation and learn something about my/our points, but just talk over me all the time. Their purpose is not to listen, or to learn, or to question, but just to feel like they matter.
Had a guy recently tell me about how he is a mechanic and that he did his own study where he found out that combustion engines do not, in fact, let out any CO2. He started it all with “give me 3 reasons to vote for you” to put me on the spot, then immediately was like “ok, I have 3 not to do it.”
There is no conversation with people like that, I’ve tried it often. Now I just wish them a nice day and go away as it’s not my job to waste time trying go educate them talking against an idiot wall.
I can understand not everyone wants to be an educator, especially of more ignorant people but when people say this I do wonder why they are even talking.
Exactly. If you’re not willing to try and educate someone you disagree with, insulting them is no substitute (in fact it’s pretty much the worst course of action re the presumed desired result), just keep quiet, or alternatively go talk of others who already agree with you so you can stroke each other’s egos, lol.
Yeah I mean I can understand not everyone wants to be an educator, especially of more ignorant people but when people say this I do wonder why they are even talking. I usually speak to people because I am interested in learning from them or because they’re interested in learning from me. This is the purpose of human communication. If you aren’t interested then the obvious solution is to stay silent.
When out distributing political flyers people will often come up to me pretending to want a conversation and learn something about my/our points, but just talk over me all the time. Their purpose is not to listen, or to learn, or to question, but just to feel like they matter.
Had a guy recently tell me about how he is a mechanic and that he did his own study where he found out that combustion engines do not, in fact, let out any CO2. He started it all with “give me 3 reasons to vote for you” to put me on the spot, then immediately was like “ok, I have 3 not to do it.”
There is no conversation with people like that, I’ve tried it often. Now I just wish them a nice day and go away as it’s not my job to waste time trying go educate them talking against an idiot wall.
Exactly. If you’re not willing to try and educate someone you disagree with, insulting them is no substitute (in fact it’s pretty much the worst course of action re the presumed desired result), just keep quiet, or alternatively go talk of others who already agree with you so you can stroke each other’s egos, lol.