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Re:Mastodon Hit 10M Users by devn0ll on Monday March 20, 2023 @02:22AM (#35227952)
I might be off-base, but I feel this is a very American thing to do: argue. In school there a even debate classes yes?

Much better, I think, is to have a truth finding conversation together. Perhaps coming from different sides of the story, but always on the search for trying to find common ground, the truth, science, and an open mind to be changed by those things.

And not see the whole thing as a match to be won you know?

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Re:Mastodon Hit 10M Users by mise_en_place on Monday March 20, 2023 @02:42AM (#35228079)
Are you European? Wasn’t it your whole cultural tradition to argue? Perhaps your modern culture has been corrupted somehow where you can no longer have meaningful debates. The Socratic method is an argument based system.
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Re:Mastodon Hit 10M Users by zztop44 on Monday March 20, 2023 @02:54AM (#35228136)
Depends what you mean by “argument”. I wouldn’t say the Socratic dialogues resemble Twitter.
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Re:Mastodon Hit 10M Users by bmacho on Monday March 20, 2023 @05:55AM (#35229335)
This HN thread resembles a Socratic dialogue.
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Re:Mastodon Hit 10M Users by hcks on Monday March 20, 2023 @03:05AM (#35228194)
Please teach us your way, O wise non-American
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Re:Mastodon Hit 10M Users by Semaphor on Monday March 20, 2023 @03:23AM (#35228313)
> I might be off-base, but I feel this is a very American thing to do: argue.

I’m a German, back in school (20+ years ago) I was taught that arguing, when done in good faith, helps everyone. So I disagree heavily with your characterization of arguing as American.

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Re:Mastodon Hit 10M Users by kornhole on Monday March 20, 2023 @02:08PM (#35235919)
What you are describing is argument. Maybe it is a translation problem to your language. Even here in America the word argument sometimes has a bad connotation and associated with that situation you describe where the parties are just trying to win rather than understand each other.
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