Rick Horton Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdnV6pSJK3U Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ritherz Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 Well put, ever since I learned this. I've certainly saved a lot of time doing more enjoyable stuff than banging my head against a wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRobin Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 Another thing you can say first is something like "I'm not really sure, what that has to do with the question I just asked" and see how the other person reacts to that. Worst case they insult your intelligence, best case they explain how they think the two hang together (maybe in a way that wasn't obvious to you in a way that you mistook their argument for a red herring). Either way I'd rather try pointing that out first before I'd bow out of an argument.Also, you use the word "honor" a lot here and I'm not sure what you really mean by that. "Honor" is one of those words that has a lot of different meanings to different people/cultures, so I'm not sure why you use such an ambiguous term as a way of describing behaviour (and as part of a reason to opt out of a debate). Could you maybe tell me a bit more about why you used it here and what that means to you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Horton Posted February 11, 2013 Author Share Posted February 11, 2013 Well, sure. Honor, meaning: adherence to what is right or to a conventional standard of conduct: I must as a matter of honor avoid any taint of dishonesty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arius Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 what is right ... a conventional standard of conduct Those are two different things. I think you are using it in the second way, discussing etiquette rather than moral imperatives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Horton Posted February 11, 2013 Author Share Posted February 11, 2013 Yeah. That's true. I use it to mean it's other definitions too, but in this video, not so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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