(November 18, 2018 at 7:14 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(November 18, 2018 at 6:37 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: There is generally little to do with honesty when it comes to asking for civility, for that matter.
I'm pretty sure (if I'm reading my own feelings accurately) that when I ask for civility I'm not asking to abandon honesty.
I want to hear: "I disagree with you for these three reasons:_____" and not, "Go and die you [edited to read: unpleasant dolt]." I wouldn't even call the latter response honest -- just a kind of phatic burst.
I don't think that every person who asks for civility is asking for (or has) an abandonment of honesty, only that it's common...and even in those who do not intend to produce this effect, because honesty and civility must occupy the same space...the effect is produced regardless.
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