Rules for 2018

One thing I’m promising myself in 2018 is that I’m going to recognize more rapidly people who should not be taken seriously, or are trolling, or have sufficiently different views of reality or humanity that argumentation cannot lead to a useful conclusion.  Over 2017 I tested a bunch of them, and I’ll be discussing them over the next days.

 

Here’s one:   When people say “human beings are bad” in some specific way: dishonest, evil, sick, etc, I ask a simple question: “are you including yourse...