If I'm not answering your posts, its because your behavior has led directly to me not reading them. I say again, I AM NOT READING THEM. Likely, no one is reading them. Cease annoying me with your desperate pleas for attention.
"-- Most of the energy put into a debate is spent on just communicating what your point of view is, and very little energy, in comparison, is left to arguing the merits of those views once both sides understand what they are. It's here that most debates are won or lost, simply because one side may be right, but doesn't have the verbal dexterity to explain why.
This is also the case where someone nervous of losing will go into nitpicking mode and try to contest misconstrued representations of the details.
It's unfortunate that the Internet can't also eliminate trolls, infant provocateurs, and the stubbornly ignorant, so it seems that if you do want to use it as a forum for debate, you should treat it like a buffet of uneven quality to be sampled from carefully. --"
Thesis, antithesis, synthesis
Address:http://www.disenchanted.com/dis/humanity/debate.html
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"It's unfortunate that the Internet can't also eliminate trolls, infant provocateurs, and the stubbornly ignorant," -- those on -- "Nitpicking mode".