Furthermore, there are inumerable examples of friendships which began on SI. It is one thing for you to claim yourself incapable of knowing people unless you smell them or touch them, or whatever senses you favour, but it is quite another for you to impose such a silly belief on others. You cannot know what another knows, so to contradict all the people on SI who have given testimony that they are real, and that they have met other real people is frankly a bit overbearing as well as quite silly.
For you to insinuate that people (such as yourself, for instance) blindly meet others from SI, later to become friends is somewhat ludicrous and telling. Mature adults would not meet with total strangers whom they did not believe they understood and knew to be safe--and of a certain character, personality, and disposition. Your actions belie your words, and the actions of countless others show, that not only are they real--but they can make real judgements and asessments of one another with a degree of confidence and accuracy. The idea that one needs to follow a person to their home (which may not even BE their home) before you can "know" them is remarkably jejune.
This whole discussion is so foolish as to invite the criticism that your "arguments" are contrived for some other purpose. I do not know what to make of such silly talk. You insult all the friendships that have been made on SI when you insinuate that they grew out of ignorance rather than assessment, evaluation, judgement, and knowledge. Does one have to touch or smell a person to "know" them. The idea is ludicrous. |
