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Re:92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people by jonfw on Thursday May 14, 2020 @04:05PM (#23184676)
There are many differences between arguing and fighting. One that comes to mind is arguments ability to be productive.

I feel you've made an argument towards me with your comment, and it was welcome because you posed it rationally and without making it personal. It's impossible to pose a fight with a stranger rationally and impersonally, so I'm not sure that that analogy is a good fit.

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Re:92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people by BeetleB on Thursday May 14, 2020 @08:04PM (#23187299)
> There are many differences between arguing and fighting. One that comes to mind is arguments ability to be productive.

I think the distinction is that while it is productive for you, it may be the opposite for your interlocutor. People have conversations for different reasons, and the reasons you have are a strict subset of those. And in real life - outside of academia and some of the tech world - their reasons rarely align with yours.

(Lesson learned the hard way).

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