The main objective is to exhaust you so that you can't even question the underlying psychological manipulations. The only way to fight back is to completely reject the authenticity of every suspicious source of information and not let anything epistemologically dubious affect your views at all.

& it's not to refute or handwave the problem of evil in logical context. But the problem of evil seems like looking for a particular strand of hay, rather than a needle, in a haystack. This is familiar to naturalism, but I think it's more pervasive and pessimism much truer than people tend to think

I play one myself! but I haven't done some silliness like that since I was about 15 ort 16

Not all guys who play Vs are chumps, only most of them!

some people, like those who were exiled, do not have that option. Even though things might get bad, I'm thankful to be in a position to freely help others. I hope that as many of us as possible will retain that freedom

Yea I was gonna say usually I see this phrase come up after someone has failed at critical or contextual thinking, not so much in response to them just being a bad person. Humanities education does not address the problem of being a shitty person who is willing to do evil things.

I like talking from strangers from time to time, at least to be polite or be helpful. Honestly, when I'm wearing my earbuds in public, I'm hoping that someone isn't trying to speak to me not realizing I have them in and I inadvertently ignore them. That can be slightly annoying still