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Offline Dan

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Guidelines for Civil Discourse
« on: April 28, 2009, 04:17:16 AM »
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

Offline Dave H

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Re: Guidelines for Civil Discourse
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2009, 04:45:36 AM »
Hey Dan,

How about:

Give an additional benefit of doubt to a person who has certified brain damage.  ;D

Dave
The developmentally disabled madman!

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Re: Guidelines for Civil Discourse
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2009, 08:26:10 PM »
Yeah Dave but who would decide who was brain damaged?  Democrats or Republicans?

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Re: Guidelines for Civil Discourse
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2009, 08:26:10 PM »

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Re: Guidelines for Civil Discourse
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2009, 10:26:05 PM »
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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Re: Guidelines for Civil Discourse
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2009, 11:51:46 PM »
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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Re: Guidelines for Civil Discourse
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2009, 03:59:59 PM »
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.
...a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young.
- "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift

 

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