Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-45206069-20200317024412/@comment-45173656-20200322023304

FlatZone wrote: You clearly didn't get Zetsu''s analogy. He was referring to the master with the rock having more skill than the novice with the shuriken. You missed my most important point in bringing up these analogies. What I was actually getting at was that complexity is not necessarily better than simplicity. Look at the other Bruce Lee example as well.

Didn't want to mention skill because I didn't want UltimaDude to confuse it with his own definition of skill.

To him, complexity is equivalent with skill.I wanted to make it simple for him to understand my point, because it feels like I'm talking to a numbskull.

In other words, this was deliberate, not because I didn't get it.

'''We already had an argument over definitions above. Really didn't want to risk him being confused and then having to waste more time on explanations again. Wouldn't be worth it. So I deliberately avoided mentioning the word "skill".'''

It's really troublesome to have to do these kinds of things tbh. I wish I could just simply say things as they are as well. But this happens when you are talking to a numbskull. You have to keep simplifying things down until only your main point is left in order to drive it through the other person's skull.

Sad, but it seems like that is the only way to even possibly get him to understand my main point that complexity is not necessarily better than simplicity.

Even then, he will still probably say that he finds my logic ridiculous even after I went to such lengths lol. I feel quite helpless myself tbh. Can you teach me about any other ways to drill into him that "complexity is not necessarily better than simplicity?"