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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.

Posted 21st March 2004 at 4:48 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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