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Re:What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? by dash2 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @10:23AM (#36213259)
I'm absolutely able to consider a different perspective! I simply disagree with you. Maybe in ten years, I will have changed my mind. Who knows? We'll see.
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Re:What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? by thomastjeffery on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @01:24PM (#36216149)
If that's the case, then what are you waiting for?

I can understand you disagreeing with me. That's fine.

But where is the substance of that disagreement? All I see right now is indifference: you have discounted my opinion, not rejected it.

The purpose of discussions like this is objectivity: we don't need to wait around to be proven wrong when we can confront the ideas head on now.

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Re:What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? by dash2 on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @10:42AM (#36310929)
You are absolutely right! I'm not even engaging. That's because you're 29, and I have the illusion that I know a few things you don't, which can be got into your head (if they can at all - some people are born fools) only by experience, not by argument.
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