- May 16, 2017
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I agree with many people just being lazy. It is true. It still seems better not to make that judgment.I find this almost obscenely ironic given your choice of avatar. Because it seems to me that what you're essentially saying is "People are going to be stupid. We should just accept their incompetence."
Now tell me about Q's role in the Star Trek universe. The Continuum, or at least the Q played by DeLancie didn't take this view on things, did he? If he had, Next Gen would have been a very different show. Instead, he gave Picard and the rest of the Enterprise crew a hard time, but in doing so, he enabled them to become better, to grasp insights into the way the universe works that they never would have had the opportunity to see before.
While I am fully aware that most people going "Just look it up yourself" are speaking out of laziness themselves - as in, they don't want to take the time to provide a substantive answer. But I don't really see what's so bad about someone walking in here without even the basic skillset of how to use a search engine, and then being told "I could give you the answer, but you're better served learning how to learn the answers yourself."
"People are going to be stupid. We should just accept their incompetence."
That is basically what I was saying. But I do not want to add a negative connotation that phrasing implies. I would not call it incompetence. Some people just don't know. What you or I see as easy, others can view as challenging. What you see as a piece of cake might be quite hard for me. Who knows for sure?
I say this with zero snark. I just do not see teaching general life lessons as a role here. Not to say that you cannot do it. But you are conveying the old adage. Give a man a fish and you feed him once. Teach a man to fish and he can feed himself for life. For this thread and for this type of website. It just seems better for all to just give them their meal. Be a little kind, which always feels good. And let him\her sort out if they are better off learning how to fish for themselves or not.
As for the Q avatar. I just wanted to change my Bender avatar. Q may have taught lessons. But it can't be denied that he enjoyed irreverence. I saw that meme and thought it was funny. For the record, I only know Q from TNG. I could not watch his Voyager episodes. And by season 3, I could no longer watch DS9 in case he made appearances there, IDK. You might, therefore, have more insight into his character than I do.
"are speaking out of laziness themselves"
Let me ask you this simple question. If you had a real live person in your presence. Ask you a question that you may have answered countless times in your life. Would you really tell that person that they should find things out for themselves? Or perhaps help them? Or perhaps help them and THEN explain that they should learn these things for themselves? The impersonal nature of the internet should not change that behavior.