Because you're curious for the answer to your question. Why would you think there must be some other implication? (What did I imply by using that phrase in the previous question?)

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namaria 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

> Why the hell would you ever plead to something you didn't do if you had the resources to fight it?

Does this sound like mere curiosity to you?

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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 7 months ago | parent [-]

> mere curiosity

Well, no. The phrasing suggests some bit of outrage to me, which has its own problems but is still easier to interact with if one is looking to understand their perspective. I suppose it sounds more exclusively like an accusation to you. More likely than either of those is that it’s a combination of several factors which ultimately culminated in the person’s decision to leave their comment.

Regardless, the claim that they must have been making an accusation is speculation which is called out in the guidelines to avoid:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

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namaria 7 months ago | parent [-]

What exactly is your point? Am I not allowed to point out the fundamental failure of ethics in jumping to the conclusion that someone who didn't put up a fight when wronged by a vastly more powerful entity is somehow enabling the wrongdoing?

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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 7 months ago | parent [-]

> What exactly is your point?

Be more open-minded when someone says something you disagree with.

> Am I not allowed to point out the fundamental failure of ethics ... ?

You are allowed to opine. Are other commenters not allowed to do the same?

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namaria 7 months ago | parent [-]

This is nearly meaningless. I see you have no point.

	▲	lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		You should not be so afraid of engaging with other perspectives. You can choose your own beliefs and it doesn’t hep to close your mind to others. Read the thread back and you may find consistent arguing if you understand that my actual conclusion was written above. Of course, you would have to read comments in good faith and I suspect you would not. I would be foolish to believe you will even try because you it’s obvious by now that you have no such desire to understand other perspectives. I recommend fostering such a desire. You only have pleasant discourse with those you agree with and you cause that problem.

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ssl-3 7 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Because in real speech with real people in my real life, expressions like "Why would you do x" are nearly exclusively rhetorical and unambiguously accusatory.

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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 7 months ago | parent [-]

Similarly, I have heard expressions like "Why would you do x" and "Why would you think y" as questions being asked with curiosity. I've also seen how my perception of their intentions has been distorted such that I would not believe they are simply trying to understand. That isn't to say the phrasing does not seem to trigger such a response (I personally think it sounds hostile in text), it is to say that I can take them at their word when they tell me they did not have that intention. I will, however, concede that the phrase seems to be more commonly said with hostile ignorance rather than humble curiosity.

But... that's kinda beside the point which I did not seem to have made clearly. The original assumption of that person's decision to write that phrase is that it is intended as an accusation to this thread's OP that their brother was actually selling heroin. They do not seem to have made that specific accusation. Recall what I originally replied to:

> You're implying that someone who didn't fight is presumably guilty

That is decidedly not what they were implying, if they were implying anything.

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ssl-3 7 months ago | parent [-]

I don't know why you would make these kinds of arguments, and I do not care.

Stealing is always wrong.

Stealing is wrong even when it is stupid people who are doing stupid things that are stolen from.

Nobody deserves to be stolen from.

Especially by a cop.

The end.

Further replies will be ignored. I don't willfully talk to Nazis.

(Is that an implication? Hmm. Why would anyone think that?)

	▲	lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		> Stealing is wrong even when it is stupid people who are doing stupid things that are stolen from. It’s plain cowardice to accuse me of disagreeing with this and subsequently run away from the conversation. You are god-awful at empathy. Learn some emotional intelligence.

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