Would agree / disagree buttons be useful?

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[–]wizzwizz4[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

You are staying that something in your own mind is telling you that you could be wrong. […]

That nagging feeling is trying to tell you to re-examine your beliefs, and opinions.

*facepalm* This nagging feeling is the I Am Right part of my mind, that insists that I should deliberately sabotage anything that goes against My Viewpoint. It's the one that would stop me from questioning my beliefs, and would instead seek to discredit everything which disagrees with me. The one that would be sated by pressing that "disagree" button so I can get on with listening to people.

You seem to know quite a bit about them.

I'm assuming that the intelligence agencies have access to the latest and greatest in freely-available software. As I said, I – not being an expert, and working alone – could probably put together a program that sorted pro-XYZ statements from con-XYZ statements with about 70% accuracy in a week, by stringing together other people's code.

Please stop asking everyone else to publicise their info, so you can conveniently sort it.

I would never. I take it as an insult to my character that you'd accuse me of such a thing, and the only thing stopping me from being offended is that you don't know me well.

I'm one of the people who argued against people's votes from being made public — I was trying to link it when I found this; not cool to address people without writing /u/username somewhere – but anyway, I'm one of the people who argued against people's votes being made public.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

K.

[–]wizzwizz4[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Concede starts with a C, not a K.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Catastrophe starts with C.

[–]wizzwizz4[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If you still have a point to make, make it. Saying "K." is saying "I have nothing further to contribute." That doesn't do your stance justice.

You made some good points there. You were just surrounding it with this… blah. Reasoned discussion is hard, and I don't expect you to be perfect at it straight away. If you don't want to debate any more, say something like:

I don't want to talk about this any more.

or just don't reply. Saying "K." makes it seem like you can't think of a way to refute my position, and are resorting to being snarky and dismissive for want of an argument.