Well, honestly, I find this rather fascinating, and really, hoping I can learn something from it.
This notion that if people are challenged in an unreasonable way it can turn into a "teaching moment" On the other hand, maybe you have a point, and really I am not trying to be duplicitous here, but,.... would it be analogous to say, what the nazis did to prisoners, in terms of experiments like subjecting people to extreme heat, or extreme cold, or other tortureous experiments in the name of research. The results of those "experiments" were useful to science. Honestly, they were. So, is it along those lines? Or I guess, you mean something milder like just misrepresenting someone, (short of legal slander, I presume) just see how they respond? I would think you'd have a better idea of a person's inner quality by engaging in a more civil conversation which often will have its own edginess. Most beings - animals, humans, creatures typically don't respond well to being wronged, or hurt physically. Even animals can be subjected to a sort of misrepresentation. Typically that falls under the category of "cruelty to animals" I guess I just find this statement of yours, which you've repeated often, curious. ---In [email protected], <anartaxius@...> wrote : The Peak has had a few good conversations, but it is pretty sappy most of the time. When people are challenged, often in an unreasonable way, an unfair way, you get to see their real psychology come forth, and get a better sense of their level of knowledge and how they express it. When everything is nicey nicey, that knowledge stays hidden, so you cannot tell if it is there or not.
