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		<title>By: New York Times&#8217; David Leonhardt Questions the Motives of Anti-Tax Conservatives</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2009/10/24/rules-of-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-5133</link>
		<dc:creator>New York Times&#8217; David Leonhardt Questions the Motives of Anti-Tax Conservatives</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Seth Godin on Online Arguments</title>
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		<dc:creator>Seth Godin on Online Arguments</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Peter</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2009/10/24/rules-of-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-3193</link>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lawyer, 

The important thing to remember when you are the subject of a personal attack is to never respond in kind.

That&#039;s precisely what your name-calling opponent wants you to do. 

I suggest you do the opposite and take a page from Shakespeare&#039;s Mark Antony and always pepper your counterarguments with the phrase &quot;Brutus (insert your opponent&#039;s name here) is an honorable man.&quot;

It will drive them bonkers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lawyer, </p>
<p>The important thing to remember when you are the subject of a personal attack is to never respond in kind.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s precisely what your name-calling opponent wants you to do. </p>
<p>I suggest you do the opposite and take a page from Shakespeare&#8217;s Mark Antony and always pepper your counterarguments with the phrase &#8220;Brutus (insert your opponent&#8217;s name here) is an honorable man.&#8221;</p>
<p>It will drive them bonkers.</p>
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		<title>By: Peter</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2009/10/24/rules-of-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-3192</link>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>BillOGoods,

Thank you very much for the kind comments.</description>
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<p>Thank you very much for the kind comments.</p>
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		<title>By: BillOGoods</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2009/10/24/rules-of-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-3186</link>
		<dc:creator>BillOGoods</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Posts like this is the reason I&#039;m now reading  TTLB every day.  Consistently first rate treatment of the topics.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Posts like this is the reason I&#8217;m now reading  TTLB every day.  Consistently first rate treatment of the topics.</p>
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		<title>By: Lawyer Section</title>
		<link>http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2009/10/24/rules-of-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-3184</link>
		<dc:creator>Lawyer Section</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can&#039;t agree with you more. I have been through a nasty comment battle where more than one person was calling everyone else names. It was a blog fight and utterly ridiculous. Although great for traffic, it killed the integrity of the blog as well as the writers and regular viewers. Overall a bad idea. Comment moderation is fully necessary these days. It is also unfortunate that the internet allows for slanderous characters to have a voice and with one simple blog destroy the hard work of other people, all because of some insecurities. Can&#039;t we all just get along</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t agree with you more. I have been through a nasty comment battle where more than one person was calling everyone else names. It was a blog fight and utterly ridiculous. Although great for traffic, it killed the integrity of the blog as well as the writers and regular viewers. Overall a bad idea. Comment moderation is fully necessary these days. It is also unfortunate that the internet allows for slanderous characters to have a voice and with one simple blog destroy the hard work of other people, all because of some insecurities. Can&#8217;t we all just get along</p>
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