On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:04:59 -0000, Andrei Alexandrescu <[email protected]> wrote:

On 2/19/12 4:00 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

Seriously, how is this not *already* crystal-clear? I feel as if every few weeks you're just coming up with deliberately random shit to argue so the
rest of us have to waste our time spelling out the obvious in insanely
pedantic detail.

It sometimes happened to me to be reach the hypothesis that my interlocutor must be some idiot. Most often I was missing something.

I get the impression that you find "Devil's advocate" a useful tool for generating debate and out of the box thinking.. there is something to be said for that, but it's probably less annoying to some if you're clear about that from the beginning. :p

Regan

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