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One way to avoid meanness is to apply a principle known colloquially as "Miller's Law." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Armitage_Miller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Armitage_Miller To understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to imagine what it could be true _of_. That is, when you see someone wrong on the internet, instead of trying to force them to agree with you, identify what they know that makes them believe their assertion.