2011-08-16, 12:54 PM
hadriel Wrote:I gave you a chance to correct yourself without me having to go through all that trouble, and without me having to tear it down.
That's the point at which you're being condescending however; It's not giving me a chance to figure out where my understanding of a problem is wrong if you have training and specialization in the field and I, like 98% of the other forumers, don't. That's just taking for granted that a highly specialized area of research is common knowledge and you come off as an ass for it. It'd be like a mechanic (or doctor) rolling his eyes at a customer who's explained their symptoms and telling them to say them over again and see if they can figure it out for themselves.
I have no problem being wrong, anyone can be wrong, including you, with as little as we have on this and as limited as the testing has been, but if you're going to assert your own correctness over someone you at least need to learn to do it with evidence, not condescension and belittling when your entire point is supposed to be how much better you understand it.
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