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One of my pet peeves about the internet and modern rhetoric in general is how people are forced to write defensively, for fear of any omissions being construed
by ehnto 5y ago
One of my pet peeves about the internet and modern rhetoric in general is how people are forced to write defensively, for fear of any omissions being construed as something you explicitly said, or a not fully finished thought as a binding contract. There's very little wiggle room to be wrong, and I don't mind being wrong, but you don't really get the chance to be constructively wrong in that format.
I've found a conversational trick in saying "But I haven't finished thinking about this yet.". It can sometimes be a bit of a thought terminating cliche, but I find it stops people jumping to contest obvious details in order to get started proving me wrong. People seem to acknowledge that I know I could be wrong, so they're more helpful in the conversation rather than antagonistic or dismissive.