(March 3, 2019 at 12:26 am)Belaqua Wrote:(March 2, 2019 at 10:58 pm)wyzas Wrote: Are you the one who decides what is, and is not, a viable argument?
I'm not talking about arguments. I'm talking about non-arguments.
For example, in August of 2014 typhoon rains caused mudslides in my area. 73 people were killed overnight and a rescue worker died the next day. A friend of mine was trapped and traumatized and has never been the same since.
A young woman who disagreed with me about the value of religion took this as an opportunity to joke. She said, among other things, that the god I believe in [though I don't believe in god] was incompetent because he should have killed me as well.
Do you think this is a viable argument?
You're right, that's not an argument, it's a personal attack.
Because this is out of context it's difficult to understand about her motive. Could she have felt personally attacked by you in a past interaction? My own personal opinion is that you sometimes come across as talking down to people.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
