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A comment on Beginner's Guide to Arguing Constructively. Parent comment

Re:Beginner's Guide to Arguing Constructively by emmelaich on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @01:18AM (#24834139)
I agree, but usually only one on one.

If the other party is with people, they tend to play to the audience.

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Re:Beginner's Guide to Arguing Constructively by glaugh on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @01:47AM (#24834263)
Fwiw, I have had some discussions on FB that seemed to improve with some of these strategies.

This goes a bit against the spirit of the thing, but a side-effect seems to be that if one is using these tools in a public forum like FB (which of course goes against this article's advice), one does come off as more reasonable to anyone in the audience who is undecided. (I think...)

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