[CrackMonkey] How to Argue

[Bob Bernstein]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 01:17:53PM -0800, Nick Moffitt wrote:
> 	How to argue!  Yaay!

Don't give me that, you snotty-faced heap of parrot droppings!

M:  I came here for a good argument.

A:  No you didn't; no, you came here for an argument.

M:  An argument isn't just contradiction.

A   It can be.

M:  No it can't. An argument is a connected series of statements intended to
establish a proposition.

A:  No it isn't.

M:  Yes it is! It's not just contradiction.

A:  Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position. 

M:  Yes, but that's not just saying 'No it isn't.'

A:  Yes it is!

M:  No it isn't!

A:  Yes it is!

M:  Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic
gainsaying of any statement the other person makes.

-- 
Bob Bernstein
Esmond, R.I., USA