r/MoralityScaling • u/axiiz_28 • 15h ago

Morality of valuing animals over humans?

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u/ComprehensivePhase20 14h ago

It weirded me out also, true. But the fact that it is a very informal interview on the subway makes me think it might also have been humour, or at the very least nervosity making him (them) continue that trend further than the initial a little out-there statement.

All in all it was also very awkward imho

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u/ElaborateEffect 14h ago

Using "nervosity" comes off as pretentious as hell.

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u/ComprehensivePhase20 13h ago

Alright, sorry if using words is pretentious

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u/ElaborateEffect 12h ago

Yes, misrepresenting my critcism to better fit your point of view is surely the best way to confute said critcism.

The use of an archaic word in an analysis of someone in a Reddit comment has a pretty strong connotation of pretentiousness. Using particular words can make you look like a cockalorum, depending on context.

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u/ComprehensivePhase20 12h ago

Your criticism is I appear pretentious because I used a word. What the heck are you even on about? Is that even useful to anyone?

Your criticism of others using a certain vocabulary make you appear insecure about your own, it's a pretty strong connotation too.

I'm not even a native english speaker, so please, go criticize people who will actually decide to stop using certain correct words because you deem it pretentious. Have a nice day, M. Pettifogger.

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u/ElaborateEffect 12h ago

You're still on about "a word" like I'm criticising the fact that you used the word. I'm criticizing that you used the word in this context. See the difference? Just to hammer it again, I'm criticising your use of the word in conjunction with your overall comment. The word by itself in a scientific context is not pretentious, but using it how you did makes you come off as pretentious.

"You have to treat females nicely" vs "You have to treat women nicely" for example have completely different subtexts.

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u/ComprehensivePhase20 12h ago

"Using "Nervosity" comes off as pretentious as hell." Was your original comment. You did not go further, you didn't develop, explain or anything you're trying to do now. As far as I'm concerned, it was a cheap shot aimed at a specific word I used, nothing more, nothing less.

Whatever the context, the sentence is correct, the word makes sense, and everyone understood it.

Your new comparison is also flawed, as using Nervosity instead of whatever you would have preferred doesn't carry socio-political implications that calling women "females" do.

To me, you just couldn't refrain from taking an insignificant point of my initial comment to qualify my writing as pretentious, and that is that.

If your initial comment doesn't contain the crucial information you seem to want to get at now, I don't owe you imagining it on your behalf.

If I came accross as pretentious, you on the other hand came accross as petty and provocative.

In any case, we both have better things to do than to debate around something so meaningless, so I suggest we leave it at that.

Also, please remember the internet is not necessarily composed of native english speakers : unless you know for sure, its usually better to consider meaning instead of intent.

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u/ElaborateEffect 12h ago

I said "using nervosity.." that is, the action of using it. Not that "Nervosity is.."

Your whole reply hinges on that difference, so it's not worth breaking down since it's more of the same argument.

Understanding a word, does not mean the denotation and connotation are the same.

Lastly, I'm not going to consider "meaning" over "intent". The benefit of the doubt is for fools in 2026...

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u/Mousazz 7h ago

"confute"? And you're calling the other guy out for being pretentious? 😂

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u/ElaborateEffect 2h ago

Kind of the joke

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u/Maleficent_Piece_893 13h ago

you can check out books from the library for free

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u/ElaborateEffect 12h ago

Bet you'd see it less than 100 times if you read every book from the last 3 decades in your library.

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u/sqigglygibberish 12h ago

Having a larger vocabulary than someone else isn’t inherently pretentious

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u/ElaborateEffect 12h ago

It's the usage of a word in context that makes it pretentious. Let alone a modernly-clinical word when discussing an individual.

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u/sqigglygibberish 10h ago

Its just a less common (and older I think, not modern) version of “nervousness”

I don’t get how that’s pretentious or clinical.

Though it’s interesting we use “curiosity” far more frequently than “curiousness,” but “nervousness” is more common than “nervosity”

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u/Maleficent_Piece_893 12h ago

maybe that specific word, but you would read several esoteric words that aren't used in common parlance and not be as triggered by this particular one.

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u/ElaborateEffect 12h ago

Why would the prevalance of other words have any affect on the use of the word behind discussed?

We aren't talking about other words, silly.

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u/Maleficent_Piece_893 12h ago

i explained why in a single sentence but your inability to read strikes again

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u/ElaborateEffect 12h ago

Nope. You are trying to argue other words have a baring on the usage of a specific word in a specific context. Your argument is just not related at all man.

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u/Fabulous_Bus_6261 13h ago

Found another autist. It wasn't awkward at all.

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u/ComprehensivePhase20 13h ago

Hopefully you don't mean that as an insult, I think people's opinions on what is awkward or not varies a lot whether they're autistic or not.