Iksorod and I made a Google doc of intro-level training materials for rationality / critical thinking. We'll keep adding to it as we find more stuff. Please comment with your own additions.
Obnoxious and arrogant is in the eye of the beholder...
I tell people about the flaws in their arguments and theories and suddenly I AM THE ONE who's being arrogant. I find its verry common for people to start to criticise me personally after i have identified a number of critical thinking fallacies in their arguments.
This conforms to the definition of an ad hominem fallacy.
Most often they criticise my tone, or by taking everything ive said as an insult instead of as identifying a logical puzzle for them to solve.
If they used critical thinking and scientific method and debated often, like me, then they would work out many of lifes puzzles, which is why i am such a strong proponent of it as a teaching method.
I tell people about the flaws in their arguments and theories and suddenly I AM THE ONE who's being arrogant.
Your comments were full of implicit and explicit signals of condescension towards the people you were talking to.
I find its verry common for people to start to criticise me personally after i have identified a number of critical thinking fallacies in their arguments. This conforms to the definition of an ad hominem fallacy. "the fallacy of attacking the person offering an argument rather than the argument itself."
This is, for all practical purposes, false. "Obnoxious" and "arrogant" are not properties like "blue" or "spherical" or "rumbling" that correspond to objective phenomena independent of social context.
If you say the ball is spherical and everyone else around you says the ball is cubic, you are almost certainly correct despite being a minority of one.
If everyone around you says that you are obnoxious and arrogant, then you are, in fact, obnoxious and arrogant, even if you beg to difer.
Iksorod and I made a Google doc of intro-level training materials for rationality / critical thinking. We'll keep adding to it as we find more stuff. Please comment with your own additions.