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Murdered by Words

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Responses that completely destroy the original argument in a way that leaves little to no room for reply - a targeted, well-placed response to another person, organization, or group of people.

The following things are not grounds for murder:

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[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Those words would murder harder with accessibility.


Diogenes would have been quickly banned on social media for trolling, incivility, & "arguing for arguments sake".

Classical Cynicism was all about pursuing clarity & meaning in life indifferent to its vicissitudes & free from pretenses & illusions. They held that false judgements of value caused arrogance, which caused dissatisfaction from unnatural, irrational desires[^false-value]. They argued for discovering clarity through ascetic practices free from unnatural desires through practices of shamelessness or impudence that deface the nomos of society (the laws, customs, and social conventions that people take for granted). That included flouting social conventions openly & derisively in public.

[^false-value]: especially of conventional desires (wealth, power, glory, recognition, conformity, worldly possessions)

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

Your suggestion would be more useful if it had more direct information on how the poster could add alt text to their post or image themselves, rather than a link to some generic w3 page about accessibility.