Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Shameless self-promotion/reply (35)

I once saw an 80 comment Facebook argument over respecting religion. It came to shouting, name calling, anger all round... it generally got out of hand and people were running to stupid analogies to save their point and things just didn't move.

How did I fix it? By pointing out that they were arguing over the definition of "respect" and at no point ever discussed what they expected or were thinking of by "respect". I may be at a live face-to-face version of this tonight rather than on the internet. If it ends up the same way I'll be highly disappointed.

So it's not just intellectual excerise to think like that, it really does happen.