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Etheryte on April 15, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to win an argument with a toddler

Being caring and kind are simple examples of moral compasses that are considerably better than being as right as you can be. Your comment is a great example of the kind of person I'm trying to exemplify, you make up a lot of nonsense no one ever said just to argue how much more right you are against it.

pmarreck on April 16, 2025 [–]

We agree inasmuch as I eventually learned to appreciate nice-but-dim people over intelligent-but-needlessly-arrogant people.

But that ends as soon as there are stakes and the resolution depends on intelligent recognition of data or arguments.

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