Is the consequence of a dialectical answer at all interesting?
The motivation of the questioner/answerer to continue using this 2000-year-old technique seems to me to be rather a subject for investigation.
Is feeling smarter or the emotion of winning/losing the reason for doing or avoiding it if it’s that way ?
That is self-examination in the moment itself by the doer, no time involved.
More so than anyone’s opinion.
The motivation of the questioner/answerer to continue using this 2000-year-old technique seems to me to be rather a subject for investigation.
Yes, we all should investigate our motivations.
Is feeling smarter or the emotion of winning/losing the reason for doing or avoiding it if it’s that way?
Game-playing involves “feeling smarter” and “winning/losing”. Do you think dialectic is a game? Was Socrates playing a game?
That is self-examination in the moment itself by the doer, no time involved.
I thought “the doer” can operate only in time. Do you know otherwise?
I don’t know, there are so many possible explanations.
Maybe his health started to bother him and he forced euthanasia. Or he wanted to end up in the history books like Trump and Putin.
Any tool can be misused, a knife can lead to murder as well as save a life.
So everything depends on motivation and skill of the user.
Comparing Socrates with Trump and Putin?!
That’s Asking for the known!
You seem to know that Trump and Putin are comparable to Socrates.
Sorry, I apparently rated you to a higher level of comprehension by assuming you are capable of determining the difference between an assumption and an equation.
I never over-estimated you.
What a peace of mind.