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Avoiding protracted debates
Avoiding protracted debates
21st March 2004
I love Charles Miller’s Fishbowl . His latest entry introduces his rules for argument . Read them, follow them and save a truck-load of time avoiding protracted debates in the future. Heck, if everyone stuck to them the overall productivity of the internet would probably increase by a factor of ten.
Previously hosted at https://simon.incutio.com/archive/2004/03/21/avoiding