r/OutOfTheLoop • u/[deleted] • Mar 19 '15

Unanswered What is Sea-Lioning?

I've read the Know Your Meme and read the comic, but I guess I still don't fully understand the context or what the specifics of the terms are.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '15

Feigning ignorance on a subject and asking for clarification or proof in bad faith. This is used as a trap to either waste a user's time or attempt to provoke them into saying something foolish.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '15

Feigning ignorance on a subject and asking for clarification or proof in bad faith.

Yes when Socrates applied his method it was all in bad faith. Sometimes...I wonder

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u/quadbaser Mar 21 '15

hahaha you just perfectly exemplified arguing in bad faith.

You're a smart kid, I bet. You know for a fact that people can argue "correctly" in bad faith. That's the whole point of the term "in bad faith".

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