Reading comprehension sure is a thing

[farla]

Oh my god, I barely made it through the first post before getting fed up with inane pseudopedantry — like in order to be upset at Katniss hiding a bow beneath a berry bush, they assume that all berries are edible, which they're not. Or being unable to comprehend clauses like, "but carefully, carefully." For every moderately reasonable point, they go off on five idiotic tangents due to either their inability to correctly parse a sentence or their presumption that they understand the economics and ecology of dystopic Appalachia. Add to that some crazy Von Mieses bullshit about how the kids are morons to eat a strawberry (which do actually grow wild in much of America, including the Virginia Strawberry that is native to Appalachia) instead of selling it… Ugh. That's exactly the sort of shit that needs to be quarantined in LiveJournal so that no one outside of bitter fanficcers ever reads it.

I wonder what it is that makes about saying how wrong I am without daring to tell me I'm wrong so appealing? BEARS ATTACK PEOPLE guy was pretty into that too.

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[(Anonymous)]

"I wonder what it is that makes about saying how wrong I am without daring to tell me I'm wrong so appealing?"

Well that's a pretty easy one. Telling people they're wrong to their faces is confrontational and PERSONAL, but talking about being wrong to other people (even and especially if they disagree) is an INTERESTING DEBATE.

It's for the same reason you wouldn't go up to Vin Diesel or something and say, "Hoo boy, your acting sucks big time. That one part in Chronicles of Riddick where you made that grimace at the sun beast was awful!" while you might tell a complete stranger (who is a obviously a huge Vin Diesel fan) that you think Vin Diesel is a bad actor who can't grimace at sun beasts to save his life.

[farla.livejournal.com]

But it seems like that this should be in the latter category. If someone says they're amazed by Vin Diesel's sun-grimacing ability, you don't tell a third person that they're wrong, do you?