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Author Topic: The 10 Commandments of Rational Debate  (Read 623 times)

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DOK

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Re: The 10 Commandments of Rational Debate
« Reply #1 on: Monday 23-Jul-2018, 17:05* »
I'm looking for thou shall not pun, can't seem to see it anywhere..

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Re: The 10 Commandments of Rational Debate
« Reply #2 on: Monday 23-Jul-2018, 17:26* »
What QJ said!!

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Re: The 10 Commandments of Rational Debate
« Reply #3 on: Monday 23-Jul-2018, 19:12* »
Rationale Debate, this is going to a challenge for some on here.

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Re: The 10 Commandments of Rational Debate
« Reply #4 on: Monday 23-Jul-2018, 21:08* »
This is admirable but if adopted will stifle posts here!!!

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Re: The 10 Commandments of Rational Debate
« Reply #5 on: Monday 23-Jul-2018, 21:29* »
I'm thinking of sending it to Donald Trump! :)

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Re: The 10 Commandments of Rational Debate
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 24-Jul-2018, 10:32* »
Well that's all a matter of opinion!

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Re: The 10 Commandments of Rational Debate
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 24-Jul-2018, 10:55* »
Well that's all a matter of opinion!
Says you!

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Re: The 10 Commandments of Rational Debate
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 24-Jul-2018, 11:13* »
Fact!

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Re: The 10 Commandments of Rational Debate
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 24-Jul-2018, 12:28* »
Let us not forget:

Godwin’s Law (a response to argumentum ad Nazium and reductio ad Hitlerum) was formulated by attorney Mike Godwin, former general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, in the 1990s, and states:

“”As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."

Traditionally in many Internet discussion forums, it is the rule that once such a comparison is made, the discussion is effectively finished and whoever mentioned Hitler or the Nazis has automatically lost the debate, though it is considered sort-of acceptable if one immediately says "Pardon me for invoking Godwin's Law."

On a Quins forum, this could also be employed when using a comparison with, say, Saracens.

Given that, we should also not forget Poe's Law - "Without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism."

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Re: The 10 Commandments of Rational Debate
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 25-Jul-2018, 09:04* »
Ok. I intend to pun. What will be my pun ishment?

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Re: The 10 Commandments of Rational Debate
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 25-Jul-2018, 10:41* »
Cake or Death?

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Re: The 10 Commandments of Rational Debate
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 25-Jul-2018, 11:04* »
Cake, I'll get in early before it runs out.

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Re: The 10 Commandments of Rational Debate
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 25-Jul-2018, 11:25* »
Whoever wrote that Izzard man.

 

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