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I think it's only you who aren't aware of how you are coming across. Your conclusion that the developers being narrowminded is an implication of the premise stating their minds/perspectives are broadened simply is not valid logic. It's a personal assumption yes, but the action where a perspective is broadened does not definitively dictate what the initial state of the mind was. If the developer was killed, that would imply that he or she was alive in the first place because the state of life is binary. You either are living or you're dead. However, the broadness of something is relative and it lies on a spectrum. A doorway can be more broad than another doorway and the doorway's broadness is relative to the person walking through the doorway. So the correct implications would be both that a narrow mind was made less narrow OR an open mind was made more open (the perspective broadened further) -- not one or the other. Because of this, you are wrong to accuse the post of claiming such developers of essentially being narrowminded. It could have meant either or and there'd be know way to prove one implication more valid than the other without further information. Sorry to nitpick but your last sentence came off a smug despite you arriving at an incorrect conclusion (your biased assumption of what the post meant). This is why internet debates end badly so often. And of course, it's prevalent for the person with the bad sense of logic to try and blame/shame the other poster for not being clear. |
If you aren't clear, you can't blame the other person for arriving at an incorrect conclusion. Neither can you accuse the other person of having bad logic. It is your responsibility to be as clear as possible especially when it deals with sensitive topics.
You are definitely cutting yourself too much slack here sir. If you would like to be a positive force in these infamous internet debates, dedicate time to clarity because there are many different personalities reading your material/comments.
Food for thought.
