PS: Insulting your opponent, although an understandable outlet of your frustration, is a form of defecting from the positive-sum game of a civil discussion.
It’s not always positive-sum (or even often, if you pick random interlocutors). Your time spent arguing can easily be worth more than what the other person gains. Insulting probably doesn’t help though.
Your time spent arguing can easily be worth more than what the other person gains. Insulting probably doesn’t help though.
One of the nice things of being part of the academic establishment is that its other people’s duty to explain things that are already covered. Except when public relations are concerned. shudders
It’s not always positive-sum (or even often, if you pick random interlocutors). Your time spent arguing can easily be worth more than what the other person gains. Insulting probably doesn’t help though.
One of the nice things of being part of the academic establishment is that its other people’s duty to explain things that are already covered. Except when public relations are concerned. shudders