Re:London will be overwhelmed by Covid in a fortnight says l...
by dandellion on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:39PM
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Of course, some people can't be reasoned with and others will just go off the handle because they're crazy. There's no point in being nice to those, but people forget about all the others that are not far gone and we could help them to understand. That's never going to happen if we start every sentence by calling them idiots right off the bat.
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Re:London will be overwhelmed by Covid in a fortnight says l...
by nitrogen on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:49PM
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Even the unreasonable and the crazy are likely to have better outcomes if treated with some dignity rather than open rudeness. I'm not saying I'm great at it, but "I think you're wrong, here's why, maybe we can find the root of our disagreement in either differing values or differing/incomplete data" probably works better than "you are an idiot" or "your views are idiotic".