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It can be fun to agree with a position you disagree with, and take it a step further. Once in a while you can shock someone into realizing how radical a position they hold (but not often). Mostly it just feeds ignorant views though. Point: "If everyone had a gun to defend themselves, there would be no crime!" Counterpoint: "Yeah! Guns are awesome. Even better would be if everyone wore a suicide vest, so if a thug tries to rob you they know you'll just detonate and blow up the entire area." Or if you're on the defensive and answering a bunch of questions, flip it around and force the other party to take a firm stance. Point: "Carbon credits are stupid, they are a needless tax that only hurts business." Counterpoint: "What do you think is a reasonable way to limit pollution emissions? Where would you draw the line, should everyone on earth be able to create an infinite amount of pollution? 10,000 times the current limit? 100 times?" Get them to say a number and there may be some actual transfer of ideas/viewpoints. If they won't take a stand and you're talking about religion/abortion/politics, good luck because you aren't changing any minds there. In that case this is correct: Not a Children posted:The reason they call them arguments instead of negotiations is because you have zero chance of impacting the other person's view on the matter.
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