View Poll Results: Is Internet debate Ridiculous and Irrelevant?

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  • NO, Internet debate is useful and valuable

    21 47.73%
  • Yes indeed it is: it's a mere plaything and worthless in real life

    8 18.18%
  • Buggered if I know, ask something easier

    8 18.18%
  • Who died and made you King of the Board?

    7 15.91%
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition...
    there are many definitions for an argument; that's one of them

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    my pet project; yes, the fallacy thing

    Logical errors are, I think, of greater practical importance than many people believe; they enable their perpetrators to hold the comfortable opinion on every subject in turn.
    Source: Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (Book-of-the-Month Club, 1995), p. 93.

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    and this one too:

    There's a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
    Source: Burton Hillis, cited in Laurence J. Peter, Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 425.

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    Quote Originally Posted by idleidolidyll View Post
    there are many definitions for an argument; that's one of them
    Alert, alert!

    Sense of humour failure. Possible Male Human lacking MPFC gene detected! Warning Wil Robinson!
    If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim2 View Post
    Alert, alert!

    Sense of humour failure. Possible Male Human lacking MPFC gene detected! Warning Wil Robinson!
    alert alert

    deaf dumb and blind man walking

    unable to spot wit and sarcasm even when driven onto his skull with a sharp tongue

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    I'm multi-talented: I can type and piss you off at the same time

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    Quote Originally Posted by idleidolidyll View Post
    alert alert

    deaf dumb and blind man walking

    unable to spot wit and sarcasm even when driven onto his skull with a sharp tongue
    Yes I can!
    If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?



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    Those of you who think you know everything are annoying those of us who do.

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    No they're not.
    If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?



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    Yes they are.
    "Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]

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    I would argue differently....
    Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........
    " Life is not a rehearsal, it's as happy or miserable as you want to make it"

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    Quote Originally Posted by scumdog View Post
    I would argue differently...
    No you wouldn't.
    "Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]

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    You're just contradicting people.
    If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?



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    Gah! The Wellingtonians have struck the thread.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim2 View Post
    You're just contradicting people.
    No I'm not.
    "Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]

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