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That's not true - if your goal is to change minds or address a standpoint, treating the position fairly and giving a smart, reasoned, and respectful response to
by WaxProlix 12y ago
That's not true - if your goal is to change minds or address a standpoint, treating the position fairly and giving a smart, reasoned, and respectful response to a charitable interpretation of your opposition's standpoint is the BEST way to proceed forward.
- Kalium 12y agoWere this universally the case, creationism would have ceased to have adherents several generations ago. Therefore, I submit that your position is only true for rational positions reached and held by rational people who are willing to be convinced by rational discourse.
- MichaelGG 12y agoMost people don't have such ... strongly-held ... beliefs about rocket science as they do their origin.
- Kalium 12y agoI suspect you are correct. I simply wished to make a point about the generality of parent's point.
- Crito 12y ago"Why can't we launch waste into the sun?" doesn't really signal irrationality. If they prefaced it with "I believe the earth is 6000 years old and I wonder..." then maybe you'd have a point.