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EzeWong

Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:14 pm Post subject: How to argue on a forum? |
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Edit: I should say, how do YOU argue on a forum?
Does anyone have any methodolgies of how they go about arguing on forums? Or do they just attack it kamikaze style? or spliff it? |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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The most important rule: there's never a wrong time to call someone a fag. |
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Underwaterbob

Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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I'm here to stamp out all injustice, hypocrisy and idiocy with my righteous indignation!!! |
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SeoulFinn

Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Location: 1h from Seoul
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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The first one who calls the other Hitler or nazi loses the argument. At least that is what I heard years ago. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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SeoulFinn wrote: |
The first one who calls the other Hitler or nazi loses the argument. At least that is what I heard years ago. |
Godwin's Law.
But it depends on who you're arguing with. Usually the first one who is compared with Hitler is the loser. |
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EzeWong

Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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RACETRAITOR wrote: |
SeoulFinn wrote: |
The first one who calls the other Hitler or nazi loses the argument. At least that is what I heard years ago. |
Godwin's Law.
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Wish you posted this sooner, MAD interesting stuff.
I never knew this is an academically recognized term. I just spent the last ten minutes reading up on "reductio ad hitlerum"
lmfao. Hilarious stuff on phallacies. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea
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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:07 am Post subject: |
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It's not so much an academically recognised word as a Usenet rule of thumb. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:36 am Post subject: |
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However, it should be more commonly recognized that Godwin was a Nazi and espoused the 'Law' to protect Nazism from being disparaged. |
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SuperHero

Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout
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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:52 am Post subject: |
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RACETRAITOR wrote: |
The most important rule: there's never a wrong time to call someone a fag. |
fag |
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Leslie Cheswyck

Joined: 31 May 2003 Location: University of Western Chile
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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:54 am Post subject: |
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RACETRAITOR wrote: |
Godwin's Law.
But it depends on who you're arguing with. Usually the first one who is compared with Hitler is the loser. |
That sounds like something Hitler would say. There, you lost... fag! |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea
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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:32 am Post subject: |
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SuperHero wrote: |
RACETRAITOR wrote: |
The most important rule: there's never a wrong time to call someone a fag. |
fag |
You know who else had a problem with fags? Hitler. |
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yingwenlaoshi

Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: ... location, location!
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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:45 am Post subject: |
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RACETRAITOR wrote: |
SuperHero wrote: |
RACETRAITOR wrote: |
The most important rule: there's never a wrong time to call someone a fag. |
fag |
You know who else had a problem with fags? Hitler. |
Hitler was a fag, wasn't he? |
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joshuahirtle27

Joined: 23 Mar 2008
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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:48 am Post subject: |
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RACETRAITOR wrote: |
The most important rule: there's never a wrong time to call someone a fag. |
shut up FAG
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yingwenlaoshi

Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: ... location, location!
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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:52 am Post subject: |
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joshuahirtle27 wrote: |
RACETRAITOR wrote: |
The most important rule: there's never a wrong time to call someone a fag. |
shut up FAG
See?  |
A Bostonian would say "You like cack!"
Now do you see? 
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joshuahirtle27

Joined: 23 Mar 2008
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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:53 am Post subject: |
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yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
joshuahirtle27 wrote: |
RACETRAITOR wrote: |
The most important rule: there's never a wrong time to call someone a fag. |
shut up FAG
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You like cack.
Do you see?  |
Shut up FAG...  |
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