Click bait versus “rational and unbiased demeanor” (was: Are the critiques in "All the things I hate about Python" valid?)
Ben Finney
ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Fri Feb 16 22:49:38 EST 2018
boB Stepp <robertvstepp at gmail.com> writes:
> Apparently he chose his article title as "click bait". Apparently he
> does not really hate Python (So he says.).
Those may well be true. What I find implausible is his expressed desire:
Ok, so “hate” is a strong word, but hopefully this click-baits
enough folks into reading this article with a clearer, more rational
and unbiased demeanor than what the title suggests. Without
descending into hyperbole, what I hope to share with you are all […]
At this point, having deliberately chosen a hyperbolic headline, the
author is too late to avoid hyperbole, and too late to engender clear,
rational unbiased demeanour.
I despise the tendency to do all the things designed explicitly to push
our irrational buttons, and then attempt feebly to regain the moral high
ground by implying that the *reader* is responsible for any lack of
“clear, rational, unbiased demeanour”.
The author is not writing in good faith, and I do not expect that any
arguments found in it are honest either.
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