The point is: he is not trying to persuade her of the truth. I am sure he has read 'How to Make Friends and Influence People' and knows how ineffective his method would be in that case. In this case, it was much less about helping her realize something than it was about revealing the truth for everyone to see and discrediting the misinformant.
People on the internet are often handled with less diplomacy because they are less important to the things that matter. I sometimes think that Zarathustra is overdoing it, but it is not my problem, and apparently it is not a problem for him either.
This is all very accurate.
I do indeed own that book.
I do, though, still want the person whose position I'm attacking to recognize the falsity of what they're saying, though.
Er... Not exactly, methinks. Fi users can be quite other-centered, just like Ti users can be practical and need proof to believe in something. Carl Rogers is a great example of an other-oriented INFP, for instance.
Good points.
There is an interesting question here that I'm never quite certain how to resolve...
What exactly is happening when Fi (or more generally, an internal source [an introverted function]) turns outward. Is it still the introverted function, or is it being turned outward via an extroverted function?
Also, is it just me, or do you picture all Fe users as frumpy mannequins who do nothing but exchange meaningless pleasantries all day? Quite a few Fe users couldn't care less about whether or not they're being "improper".
No, that's not my picture of all Fe-users.
In fact, I just repped redcheerio about how NTPs (and the same even holds true for some [although, fewer] NFJs, from my experience) can manifest their Fe in highly anti-social ways. I believe Anti-social Personality Disorder is most highly correlated with ENTPs, in fact. But, yeah, that's a whole nother problem I have with Fe (I have an ESTP neighbor who vacillates between this shallow group moralizing and totally disgusting anti-social behavior -- he will literally flip it on and off and back to on within one conversation, like the flip of a switch).