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Borrowed from MSN, these guidelines should be helpful as a reference source:
- Recognize a person’s right to advocate ideas that are different from your own
- Discuss policies, issues and ideas, not people - and especially not individual PL members
- Disagree without being disagreeable
- Use civil and helpful, not hurtful language (such as name-calling)
- Respectfully respond to differing points of view
- When unsure of what another poster means by what they have written, ask for clarification
- Realize that what you write and what people understand you have written may be different. Be patient and explain yourself again if other posters misinterpret your meaning - particularly here at PL where members have a variety of native languages, yet are doing their best to communicate in the common language of American English
- Recognize that sometimes people can and must agree to disagree
- If you are not sure what you are about to say is civil, find another way to say it or let it go
- Reliance on labels for groups of people is often the first step toward the negative. Whenever possible, avoid them. They rarely add to the quality of any discussion
- Put yourself in the other person's shoes as best as possible, to see things from a different perspective - theirs
- Give an additional benefit of doubt to a person whose first language is not English
Any others you would like to see added to the list?
- Dan
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Hey Dan,
How about:
Give an additional benefit of doubt to a person who has certified brain damage. ;D
Dave
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Yeah Dave but who would decide who was brain damaged? Democrats or Republicans?
The Bear Family
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Speaking as a strict libertarian. I vote for Dave as brain damaged. All in favor say aye, those opposed, say nay:
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Yeah Dave but who would decide who was brain damaged? Democrats or Republicans?
The Bear Family
I think I'd better just submit medical records! ;D
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Speaking as a strict libertarian. I vote for Dave as brain damaged. All in favor say aye, those opposed, say nay:
Maybe we should discuss this with Mrs. Dave H. first. Firsthand knowledge on all his purple g-string wackiness and all that. (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-whacky099.gif) (http://www.freesmileys.org)