LordsFire
Internet Wizard
You were the one saying/implying 'absolute statements are hyperbole/shouldn't be taken seriously' to someone claiming the WHO is all bad, even if you admit the org is not a positive thing.
I pointed out why the WHO is corrupted by far more than just a few individuals, 'productive' work at the WHO hasn't existed for years now, and why the view of the WHO as 'all bad' is far from hyperbole these days.
You were trying for a "I am calling out your 'hyperbole' and nitpicking the issue to seem so mature and wise." stance with mrttao, I just pointed out that his view of the WHO as 'all bad' is not at all unreasonable.
Or how about this.
Pedantry and sophistry are for psuedointellectuals and nuance is for topics that aren't centered around the closest thing you can find to outright demonic in a biblical sense; evil.
Which the WHO absolutely is.
Save the nitpicking for people who aren't raising a legitimate point.
No, it isn't about pedantry. And no, it isn't about 'seeming so mature and wise.'
It's about not making unnecessary enemies.
I've known people who worked for the WHO. Like a lot of large organizations, especially ones based around 'idealism' with basically no accountability at the top, a significant chunk of the people working at the bottom of the organization are idealists trying to go out and help people.
Blindly naive idealists, yes, but they aren't hardened, corrupt people out to cause mass destruction.
Every time you make absolute statements that aren't just wrong, but are also treating all people within a group as if they are the same, you are making it harder to convince the naive idealists that good intentions aren't enough, and they need to be wise to the lies of wicked men who would use them as pawns.
It's particularly counter-productive, because if you want to use high-octane, emotionally charged language, you can still do that, just direct it at the people you know deserve it.
Call out Tedros. Call out whoever else in the higher echelons is actively maintaining the monstrosity that the WHO has become. Name them as the pawns of evil men and architects of misery and destruction they are.
But don't say that the intern working on distributing anti-malarial medicine in rural Africa is the same kind of monster that Tedros is, and that what he's doing can't help.
The organization is sick and twisted enough that it has to go. Use rhetoric that'll help the naive pawns that help prop it up see that they're being used, rather than drive them further into the arms of the monsters.