Why can't I argue against claims of suffering?
Why can't I argue against claims of suffering?
You can!
But you are by definition speaking from a position of less knowledge that the person claiming to suffer. So, you are most likely wrong.
Given that arguing like that is disrespectful and arrogant (due to talking without knowledge) in the first place, people will not hesitate to call your argument bullshit loud and clear.
With all due respect (read: none), if they are the one speaking about their own troubles, their judgment about their own personal situation does trump your own.
Further, human relationships being boiled down to “whose judgment trumps whose” exposes your entire argument for its purpose: which is to allow you to dominate others and tell them they are “wrong” for feeling ways. Exactly the thing you are complaining of happening to you. Conversations are not attempts to dominate one another, and your view of conversations as an argument to be “won” reveals why no one likes your company.
These are obvious troll questions, not thoughtful, well considered questions.
Thus no respect.
False.
They can see their own hurt. You can’t.
Yes. They have the same powers of observation as you.
They observe that you are speaking without knowledge, and you observe it as well. They, however, may better understand the significance of that observation.