I have just sent a formal request for removal of my old posts.
I am doing the best I can right now.
Fair enough, and I thank you.
You're making an error in reasoning. Its much easier for a person to change his views on an academic topic than to change his attitudes of grave sexual perversion.
You swim along on the surface, and I scuba dive.
That means you took my pedophile example too much at face value.
You also saw your diatribes as "academic views" that can be changed, where I saw a clear undertone of unconscious hatred.
There's nothing "academic" about unconscious hatred. Nor is it something that is easily changed.
Do I expect you to admit it? Not really.
I'm not the only person in this forum to get that same vibe off your old posts.
However, since you have requested the posts be removed then I see no point in beating this to death.
Something worthwhile will have been accomplished when the posts are put to sleep.
The scarcity of empirical evidence for this phenomenon and the fact that its masked by non-typological personality qualities makes properly typing people very difficult.
Agreed.
The least one can do is ensure that the behaviors a person expresses are a result of his natural habits of thought rather than circumstancially inspired behaviors.
That's food for an entire thread.
Accomplishing this feat requires a much more careful evaluation of a person's reasoning proclivities than any five minute video can allow one to conduct.
We both know that, but it won't stop. I also happen to think it's a result of age.
One would certainly hope a mature, educated, adult would refrain from such nonsense.
The charm of 'folk typology' is in its ability to give people an opportunity to feel good about themselves without accomplishing anything.
Yes, kind of like being called INTP.
Would you explain that a bit more? I imagine somebody could get sued for using typology to slander people, yet I can't imagine getting anybody getting sued for believing that they are a 'rational mastermind' because they scored 'INTJ' on their MBTI test.
I was making a connection between how people use type to defame others, and defaming others-in general-in the real world.
If a person would defame others on the basis of 4 letters, I can only imagine what they say about people in general.
If those same people behaved like that in the business world, they would end up in court. (Typology or no typology.)
Can you suggest a replacement term that serves the same purpose but is less demeaning to others?
Use the words: MBTI BULLSHIT. Walk on the "wild" side once in awhile. You might like it.
We may not be able to eradicate the problem completely, however, we could take measures to diminish its negative consequences. The fact that most of our members are young means that we'd have an easier time accomplishing this feat than we would had they been older and more rigid in their views.
Of course we can attempt to diminish the negative consequences, but I will defer to the speeding train metaphor once more.
Also, I think you have failed to take into consideration the power of 20-something egos.
Or haven't you noticed that to many in this forum all that matters is "winning," rather than gaining knowledge and wisdom?
When it becomes more important to someone that an "argument" be framed a certain way,
rather than gaining substantive knowledge, it becomes obvious what someone's true intent is for being here.
It sure as hell isn't to learn.