@LukeAlmighty Libshits pilpul "degenerate" like it needs some metaphysical justification but it just means "getting worse" and if you say that, they can do the same thing with "worse"
I get being hesitant with it since it's a meme, but also being defensive about it would probably just lead to the same thing with something else. If they try pilpuling it just post a dictionary at them
@cereal @LukeAlmighty Exactly the pilpulling I meant.
degenerate adjective
: having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state
It's a word, you retard.
>a good argument
"good"? That's just a value judgement like any else. Kill yourself
@applejack
Throwing out certain words as easy as you'd breathe mellows / severely dilutes their meanings. 'Degenerate' is supposed to be an utterly gutteral, almost brutish response to an action or a state of being, so applying it to stupid and meaningless arguments and non-problems makes you sound wishy-washy and signals to other people that even -you- don't value your own words.
@cereal @LukeAlmighty
@Bunn0241 @cereal @LukeAlmighty I haven't applied it to a single thing. Do you have any idea what you're even trying to argue?
@Bunn0241 @cereal @LukeAlmighty Okay dokey then, friend. I basically agree with you anyway