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I can't agree to something that is unknown. That is an unreasonable position. You can say don't change subjects, but what about context? Who defines if the the "change" is actually a change but just more context? I think your proposition is unworkable. You want to constrain what someone can...

Can you give an example of what rules might look like?

Within my own biases, I am more concerned about the truth than being right. But I defend my point of view because I have arrived at the conclusion through prior rational thought. So when someone brings an argument to the table, it is very likely that I have already factored that into the...

He is a very interesting speaker on a very interesting topic. I found it alarming when he said my heart will stop beating though!

Oh yes, the 5G thing. How bizarre is that! Beaming out the Covid! I've always had the theory those that believe this type of stuff were not very good at science at school.

The flat earth thing has become a big movement. The conspiracy theorists gravitate (no pun intended) towards this sort of thing. The same crowd also tend to believe that Covid is something used by governments to control the population for nefarious reasons.

I remember from psychology classes at university, they talked about some responses built into babies. They are lessons inherited from the whispers of 10,000 years.

That looks like an interesting video, and I would watch it if I had the time. Can you give us the one sentence synopsis? Where does the balance lie?

I don't know. I am using uBlock Origin and it is brilliant! I go sometimes to the Daily Mail website and that has a ton of videos playing, ads everywhere. Used to drive me nuts. All nicely silenced now. They have an option for annoyances, found under Settings > Filter lists > Privacy > Easy...

Hurrah! I found myself a privacy/gdpr/cookie popup blocker. Now I am back in heaven again!

If someone doesn't understand each others differences, then starting somewhere might be a good thing. I think many people do understand the differences, but they just fundamentally disagree. For example, I do understand the left-wing perspective, but I just cannot understand why they think that...

That reads like a scientific experiment, and in such domains the exposure is less of a "should", more of a "must." Yet in the messy value and opinion based larger society, things are less clear cut. And people are not reasonable. Even those trying to be reasonable are not reasonable, since they...

So your view is that the owner of a small business that fails has mental problems? Your view is that overweight people have mental problems? Your view is that the poor have mental problems? Your view is that smokers have mental problems? My lazy acquaintance is not lazy on everything. He...

It doesn't imply that. This is just misinformation designed to mislead. Or plain ignorance on the part of the journalist. I am sure you will agree yourself that the closer you get to zero, the harder it is to lower the rate. The fact that the decline does not appear to have slowed down means...

Hah, I am stuck in a loop!

Try this one for starters: https://www.statista.com/statistics/194151/unemployment-rate-of-african-americans-in-the-us-since-1990/

How am I oversimplifying? What do you want to look up exactly?

The lady in the video talks about the only opportunity for the looters to get "stuff" is by looting, because of the poverty. Then why do 95% of blacks hate Trump who brought African American unemployment to its lowest level in history, which directly addresses poverty? And when someone steals...

Is it "too bad" if someone who is wrong in the head due to "cloudy thinking" gets shot dead? Should we allow those who cannot control themselves to be shot by those who can control themselves?

Having been in plenty of debates over time, I have come to believe that in most cases, argumentation causes divergence, not convergence. While the goals is the latter, the result is the former. So, is it a case that it is better to no argue, or is it a case that how you argue determines the...