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Desrtopa comments on How would you talk a stranger off the ledge? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Desrtopa 23 January 2012 05:30:20PM *  1 point [-]

As with the previous, it depends on the person, but if you don't know that this is the sort of argument they're already sympathetic to, this is probably not a good approach.