08-02-2016, 01:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-02-2016, 01:10 PM by APeacefulWarrior.)
Come on, Yinyang. I tried to show you just how biased a certain source is, in hopes you'd look for more balanced sources for information, and you respond by implying I'm somehow trying to shut down the discussion and keep repeating "it's a free world." Even though I said nothing whatsoever about shutting down the discussion and, in fact, said outright exactly what I was hoping to accomplish. Which had nothing to do with the cessation of discussion.
You just did far more to try to discourage me from talking than anything I said to you, what with suggesting I close the window rather than contribute my thoughts to the discussion. I mean, that's what a discussion is, right? An exchange of different viewpoints?
And sarcasm like this...
...is turning my words into hyperbole just for the sake of dismissing them. Nowhere did I say the word "impossibility." I said that dominance displays are intended to prevent a fight, not that they're inevitably successful in all circumstances. And what I said is pretty universally agreed to be true, both in zoology and sociology.
But really, what's so wrong with having a lot of skepticism towards a news source that's going out of its way to paint the most hostile and fearful possible picture of China\US relations? A news source which, I must point out, is run by the Russian state and would have a very vested interest in trying to fan any flames of hostility which might be there. So of course they're going to be putting up big front-page headlines implying that the US and China are preparing for hostilities. That's how the media soap opera game works.
And, wouldn't it be nicer to know we're NOT on the brink of WWIII or anything like that?
I really thought you'd be relieved to hear the situation isn't as bad as you feared. At least please go read the Reuters article I linked to. It has a much more fair and fact-based overview of the situation and why hostilities are realistically very unlikely.
You just did far more to try to discourage me from talking than anything I said to you, what with suggesting I close the window rather than contribute my thoughts to the discussion. I mean, that's what a discussion is, right? An exchange of different viewpoints?
And sarcasm like this...
Quote:I am very happy then that planet earth only has routine military exercises, and that war is an impossibility due to these effective exercises whose "purpose is to prevent fights".
...is turning my words into hyperbole just for the sake of dismissing them. Nowhere did I say the word "impossibility." I said that dominance displays are intended to prevent a fight, not that they're inevitably successful in all circumstances. And what I said is pretty universally agreed to be true, both in zoology and sociology.
But really, what's so wrong with having a lot of skepticism towards a news source that's going out of its way to paint the most hostile and fearful possible picture of China\US relations? A news source which, I must point out, is run by the Russian state and would have a very vested interest in trying to fan any flames of hostility which might be there. So of course they're going to be putting up big front-page headlines implying that the US and China are preparing for hostilities. That's how the media soap opera game works.
And, wouldn't it be nicer to know we're NOT on the brink of WWIII or anything like that?
I really thought you'd be relieved to hear the situation isn't as bad as you feared. At least please go read the Reuters article I linked to. It has a much more fair and fact-based overview of the situation and why hostilities are realistically very unlikely.