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  • Keep Your Identity Small

    February 2009 I finally realized today why politics and religion yield such uniquely useless discussions. As a rule, any mention of religion on an online forum degenerates into a religious argument. Why? Why does this happen with religion and not with Javascript or baking or other topics people talk about on forums? What's different about religion is that people don't feel they need to have any pa

    rAdio
    rAdio 2018/02/22
    『people can never have a fruitful argument about something that's part of their identity.』『More generally, you can have a fruitful discussion about a topic only if it doesn't engage the identities of any of the participants.』
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