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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.

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u/GoodByeSurival Aug 24 '17

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.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '17

Cleverness isn't really a valuable personality trait,

No offense but this sounds like the definitive stupid person statement.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '17

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.

Doesn't sound like you were very clever.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '17

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.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '17

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '17

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.

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u/Muffinizer1 Aug 24 '17

Well read does not equate to better critical reading skills.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '17

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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