Why all the aggression?

[X10J]

It is all caused by mankind's most dangerous creation and weapon; opinion.

That's Bullshit and you know it Jonny! Everyone knows it's religion! God why do you have to be so stupid!?! It's people like you who think everyone's opinion is bullshit, but your own!!
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Hehehe just messin' with ya Jonny Boy.

Rock]
What do you guys think about all of this?

But @OP ya see how easy it is to become hostile just off of one opinion? Christ it's like the internet was filled with alot of philosophers (Bull-shitters) who have too much time on their hands and would rather lash out at other people for not thinking the same as they do.

Still though, I can always count on the Escapist (8/10 times) to be a place of rationality and less infuriating posts.

But, I'm a philosopher. What's wrong with philosophy?

OT: I typically try to use the internet to be representative of myself in real life, as I imagine most people do. As far as why there's more conflict on the internet, I think it's mostly because there are more people on the internet. I mean in real life there's a decent chance that you won't run into someone who thinks differently than you on most topics in your group of family and friends. On the internet, however, there are so many more people, all talking and sharing their opinions and beliefs, some of them are bound to differ. The real problem, I think, is that people don't realy know how to respond reasonably to differing ideas, or want to respond reasonably in some cases. In realities both virtual and proper. Which isn't realy surprizing, having one's beliefs challenged can be quite the difficult thing for some people.

Nothing really, I like the subject myself, but I said it's like having a gathering of numerous philosophers in one place. In other words a huge clash of values, beliefs, opinions, theories and views that may not end well a good majority of the time.
I love philosophy however at times it tends to dance around questions I rather have answered directly.

So yeah my clash between philosophy and science raves on

Quite right, but I think an ideal philosopher (or, in my opinion, a proper philosopher) would be open to opposing ideas and would be able to settle, or even simply encounter, differing opinions reasonably and peacefully. Basically, I think that a mass congregation of philosophers is not an accurate image (assuming my idea of a proper philosopher holds true) of the clashes of opinion on the internet. In fact, I think that a lack of practised philosophy is partially responsible for the kind of hostility seen on the internet.

As for your battle between philosophy and science, might I add this little bit of philosophy from Bertrand Russell:

"It is true that this is partly accounted for by the fact that, as soon as definite knowledge concerning any subject becomes possible, this subject ceases to be called philosophy, and becomes a separate science."

And, if you're especially fond of philosophy, this bigger bit of philosophy: http://skepdic.com/russell.html

Well I'll be damned my friend has been trying to get me to read Betrand Russell for some time. Thank you I'll be sure to look into this. Bookmarked it for safe keeping, but I apologize for my brash and someone unwitting lash out at philosophy.

Still though it's good for both intellectual stimulation along with a few laughs here and there.


Thank you for that read and now I leave you with a few chuckles as well

Why did the Chicken Cross the Road?

http://philosophy.eserver.org/chicken.txt

Ha! Happy to help; I live to serve, and visa versa. Enjoy the read, it's really quite good.

Hahaha, I have to share that! I especially loved Machiavelli's, Nietzsche's, Darwin's, and Chaucer's responses.

 

[[The]Rock]

Okay, starting to get a little bit off topic here.

But hey, why the hell not?

Also, I might like to point out that I'm not new to the internet; you can stop saying "well what did you expect?" or "welcome to the internet", I just want to have peoples' opinions about how aggressive people get on the internet.

 

[Verzin]

I'm fond of a quote from KMFDM to describe this sort of behavior: "We used to hate people, now we just make fun of them. it's more effective that way."

EDIT: to make my opinion more clear, I thought I'd clarify by saying that I feel that a lot of the aggression is simply very unhappy human beings lashing out in order to make themselves feel a little better: It's more effective than just hating them.

 

[[The]Rock]

I feel that a lot of the aggression is simply very unhappy human beings lashing out in order to make themselves feel a little better: It's more effective than just hating them.

wow dude, nice point