Now I would never have dared use a noun as a verb in your presence! :-)
I'm with curly_chick on prefering to listen to a perspective until I either feel a sense of insight and affinity, or until I have to reject it. I've had close relationships with people who made devil's advocacy a never-ending game, and I've never done that nor appreciated it, even though I'm sure the vexing DA thought they were being quite clever. There was a time when I would argue back, to the point of screaming and tears, on any issue I felt strongly about. But I had to let go of that reponse. That's why a lot of my opinions end up as LJ posts and aren't put in the air for debate.
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Date: 2006-08-14 02:50 pm (UTC)Now I would never have dared use a noun as a verb in your presence! :-)
I'm with curly_chick on prefering to listen to a perspective until I either feel a sense of insight and affinity, or until I have to reject it. I've had close relationships with people who made devil's advocacy a never-ending game, and I've never done that nor appreciated it, even though I'm sure the vexing DA thought they were being quite clever. There was a time when I would argue back, to the point of screaming and tears, on any issue I felt strongly about. But I had to let go of that reponse. That's why a lot of my opinions end up as LJ posts and aren't put in the air for debate.