Rules of Disengagement

[agent_grey]

So I'm having a meta-argument with my wife.  We were discussing an issue last night, (one that we actually agree on 100%) and she, (understandably) got increasingly frustrated with the way that I have to take every argument I make or refute to the hypothetical extremes

Comments

[bobtraylor]

Well, I think you got the best advice yourself, there. You need to be able to just brush off the crazy people when they reveal that they're crazy. But of course, the trick is being able to tell yourself that. I mean, you don't want to come off as arbitrarily holding a point of view just because it happens to confirm your beliefs, you want to make clear that you have actual valid points for your beliefs, but here's the thing - you're NEVER going to convince the other person that that's the case