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Comment author: fubarobfusco 08 December 2014 08:46:21AM *  1 point [-]

Doesn't this line of thinking pretty much end up portraying a sort of sociopathic troll — a person who possess no values of his or her own, but who is able to provoke to anger anyone who has values — as the ideal?

Comment author: drethelin 08 December 2014 08:58:58AM 4 points [-]

The ideal debater is probably not the ideal person

Comment author: fubarobfusco 08 December 2014 09:44:36AM 0 points [-]

Oh, I agree. And I don't think we should conclude very much about the value of the Enlightenment from the fact that it's easy to troll David Brin.