Contra on Nostr: Hostility is mostly a status phenomenon and only secondarily an intellectual one. ...
Hostility is mostly a status phenomenon and only secondarily an intellectual one. People can be contradicted for years and hold no grudge, but they rarely forgive being made small. They defend their standing first and build the principled reasons afterward. So friendliness is a refusal to injure anyone's standing, and it leaves your positions fully intact.
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