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I recommend erring on the side of helping people understand their misconceptions.

• talmand 10y ago
  How can they help me with understanding misconceptions if I can't understand what they are saying?
  • thowfaraway 10y ago
    Maybe you are being willfully ignorant, or maybe you live in such a monoculture, different ideas are like a foreign language you can;t deal with or understand?
    • talmand 10y ago
      Yep, delving into insults is the way to go I suppose.
  • yompers888 10y ago
    I was saying that you help Them, not the reverse. And if they're completely unclear, but I think they've put some effort into making some statement that just isn't coming across, I just ask. Something like "could you clarify? I don't see what you mean by somethingsomething in light of othersomething." Granted, I don't win many online debates that way, but really all I'm trying to do is get the person to consider some other way of looking at the picture.