Dialog involves exploring and sharing of information and beliefs. Debates (online or in person) tend to be about scoring rhetorical points and "winning." I prefer the former to the latter (though it's easy to fall into debate mode). #ddtb
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slacktivist » Dueling dogma isn’t dialogue
Tweet. Another part of my complaint about “debates” like the one we discussed yesterday (on “The World Would Be Better Off Without Religion“) is that I think such point-scoring face-offs wind up repla…