Park Your Snark in the Dark

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It will surprise no one that insulting people does not endear them to you. Even less does it persuade them to change their minds and join you. Still, modern discourse almost always includes insults and name-calling - and that applies to every side of any political debate.

I take glory, as do most people, in wrapping myself up in my opinions and glaring at others. If they aren’t close enough to punch me in the nose, even better. But that feeling is a counter-productive goal for debates.

A much-ignored factor in any exchange of opinion is that I might be wrong.

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