Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "Type Ashton" channel.

I haven't watched the video yet, but a note on the sub-heading "Why millions of Americans vote against their own interest". This claim presumes that the author knows what 'Americans interests' are. This is a common cognitive fallacy: I have certain interests, and other people surely have the same, or similar, interests to me. This is plainly wrong. There are people who think differently, people who put patriotism above financial gain, put traditional culture above progressive change, put national military strength above social benefits. I am not one of those people, but clearly many people share those values, and those values represent their interests. The interests of the video author run counter to those of many other Americans. That is why they vote the way they do. It is not wrong, it is just different.
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@hobbitluck No no, you misunderstand. What is 'plainly wrong' is the assumption many of us make that others have the same interests/goals/values as we do. What is 'not wrong, only different' is the fact that though people may have opposing interests/values/goals to ours, that does not make those views/values/goals objectively wrong, it just makes them different. Let's take an example: Many people in the west regularly ask themselves: When are the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans going to switch to using knife and fork instead of chopsticks? This question posits that using knife and fork is somehow more correct than using chopsticks, even when there is no objective reason to use one or the other, only habit and culture. I hope that clears up the misunderstanding.
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Wow, that was a thorough investigation! Well done, Type Ashton.
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@pheela "please watch the video first next time." My critique is not of the video, but only of the sub-heading.
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@pheela "you are like all americans". I'm European. I also hope you noticed that I have refrained from any kind of personal attack. I hope you can do that, too.
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@pheela Here is your entire reply to me: "@pheela, 2 days ago, @pjacobsen1000 she literally explains why the video is called that. next time watch the video before voicing an opinion about something. you are like all americans: loud and proud about your uninformedness". This is what you wrote. Even if you delete your own comments, they still exist somewhere.
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@pheela "take a chill pill bro." I am quite relaxed, but I do take issue with your style of argumentation. You did not address the argument, but instead veered into insults against me, and against Americans. This is not a proper counter-argument against my position and says nothing about my position, but is simply an attack against me. Unfortunately, discourse on the internet has increasingly devolved into personal attacks and none of us are any wiser as a result of that. Besides, now that I have dug up your previous comment as evidence, your claim that 'I never said that' is clearly incorrect.
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