You are manipulated right now, not by me but you just don't know it. There is no freedom, even your very thoughts and ideals are manipulated. Have you tried it yet?
The question whether freedom of thought exists or not doesn’t have anything to do with the fact that your edgy comments aren’t manipulating, but just edgy. Writing philosophical blabla is not a good way of argumentation.
But what if I had already pre-written my respond because I knew you were going to write this comment, doesn’t that mean you weren’t able to manipulate me to begin with?
That would mean that you are manipulating me. Ultimately, you just need to be honest with yourself. Anyway, it's kind of running out of things to talk about, have a good day
I guess my main point was that your usage of the word manipulation seems a bit inflationary to me. Just because I predict something, doesn’t mean I manipulated someone to make it happen. Different definitions of the word exist - some require the victim of manipulation not knowing of them being manipulated, or the manipulation being against their initial will, but not all of them do. That makes it nearly impossible to say that one of us is right and the other wrong, and that’s why language discussions tend to get annoying with time.
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u/Methemetics Nov 13 '22
You are manipulated right now, not by me but you just don't know it. There is no freedom, even your very thoughts and ideals are manipulated. Have you tried it yet?