While I don’t disagree, I do feel like people are over-quick to label any hard questions that don’t align with thier viewpoint as sealioning.
I’ve more than once asked questions about the practicality or edge cases of a particular stance and been called a sealion for it.
But the thing is, I want to know how that thing handles the practicality or edge case issues, and am trying to have someone who is deeper into the weeds on the issue than I am explain it to me, but just get called a sealion for it.
To be fair, this has only happened to me 2-3 times, but it’s super annoying, because I’m actually trying to understand, and might even be on your side if you’d address my concerns.
There are folk for whom reductio ad absurdum is a personal attack, and those for whom it’s a perfectly reasonable form of asking for refinement.
To pick an easy example – if we support neo-genders, we absolutely should treat someone who claims to “identify as an attack helicopter” as such and strive to use their claimed neo-pronouns. (Thankfully, one doesn’t need to support neo-genders to respect trans-gender and a-gender individuals or those unsure of their gender ).
The only almost exception is in response to sea-lioning, when the request for an explanation is made in bad faith
But that’s what LMGTFY links are for.
http://lmgtfy2.com/?q=sealioning
While I don’t disagree, I do feel like people are over-quick to label any hard questions that don’t align with thier viewpoint as sealioning.
I’ve more than once asked questions about the practicality or edge cases of a particular stance and been called a sealion for it.
But the thing is, I want to know how that thing handles the practicality or edge case issues, and am trying to have someone who is deeper into the weeds on the issue than I am explain it to me, but just get called a sealion for it.
To be fair, this has only happened to me 2-3 times, but it’s super annoying, because I’m actually trying to understand, and might even be on your side if you’d address my concerns.
Agreed completely.
There are folk for whom reductio ad absurdum is a personal attack, and those for whom it’s a perfectly reasonable form of asking for refinement.
To pick an easy example – if we support neo-genders, we absolutely should treat someone who claims to “identify as an attack helicopter” as such and strive to use their claimed neo-pronouns. (Thankfully, one doesn’t need to support neo-genders to respect trans-gender and a-gender individuals or those unsure of their gender ).