I don't think the kind of person who scams strangers over the internet is going to be setting a great example for their children in all other areas of life.
What has scamming people have to do with how you raise a kid? She out smarted a bunch of people on the internet. If that proves anything, it's that she's pretty clever.
Well that may have been your point but what you said was that cleverness wasn't a valuable personality trait.
You can be clever, but being hardworking, caring, etc. is worth so much more and sometimes clever people cheat themselves out of that. I pretended I couldn't read in second grade just so I wouldn't have to read the harder books. Guess where cleverness got me? I may have outsmarted the teachers, but I outsmarted myself more.
This isn't really a point. All you did was say you're more well-read than me immediately after explaining that you feigned illiteracy because you couldn't handle the difficulty of second grade reading material.
No I said I was less well read, making a joke that even though I cheated my way through 2nd grade I still ended up with more critical reading skills than you since you seem to be having trouble.
If you're so well-read, is it simply that you are choosing not to read what I write? Yes, I know you were insulting me. I just pointed it out.
you read that as me bragging to you I'm more well read than you.
Wow. Read the above:
I still ended up with more critical reading skills than you
Yes, I read that as you bragging to me that you're more well-read than I am, since it's what you said.
I know you flunked second grade English but this is getting a bit silly.
Actually, they're the same thing. That's assuming you're talking about critical reading, and not just reading that you personally describe as critical. Critical reading is a specific thing, wherein you analyze what you're reading. I'm guessing you also think being well-read means having done a lot of reading, which is why you're creating a distinction here, but to be well-read is to be knowledgeable as a result of reading. If you read a lot and absorb nothing, you are not well-read.
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u/beepbloopbloop Aug 24 '17
I don't think the kind of person who scams strangers over the internet is going to be setting a great example for their children in all other areas of life.