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Good things to keep in mind. What are you trying to achieve? What's the payoff of this activity?
There's some value in target practice.Some minor enjoyment in squashing another tentacle of the Leviathan. More often it's a tiresome exercise of people "playing tennis without a net", as Sam Harris calls it. People who don't admit when points are scored because they don't know the rules and can't even see the ball.
I'm trying to let more of those tentacles go their way without harassment from me.
Apropos xkcd: http://xkcd.com/386/
This place has been interesting for me, as the quality of the liberal competition is higher, there's greater ability to see when points are scored, and greater honesty that they are scored. I think I'm getting a better sense of what the real divides are.