If I get in an online argument these days, I inevitably just end up annoyed that this thing is taking too long, and that the other party in the argument obviously has all the spare time I dont have any more.
So over the last few years Ive come up with an informal set of rules for argument. Ive never thought of them as such before today: they accreted over time as unconscious heuristics that I am now attempting to put into print. Im still not perfect in following these rules, but when I do follow them, I end up happier and less frustrated with life than when I dont.
