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    I suppose this is more curiosity on my end than anything else, but it's healthy to talk about these kinds of things and compare among others.

    When it comes to debating/discussing topics, what faults have you noticed in how you approach things? What could you improve on? Do you think you're too emotional? Or not emotional enough? Do you have moral blind spots that you need to work on? Things like that, really. I'm not really asking those questions, but simply giving you a better idea of what I'm interested in.
     
    I would honestly say I'm probably too emotional in the sense that I get too angry. I often let my irritability get the better of me. I don't know about moral blindspots, but many opinions tend to trigger rage for me. It's why I don't go on here that often; it got to the point where even opinions I agreed with tended to annoy me.

    This section of PC has always been the source of me taking hiatuses from the community as a whole.
     
    Whilst I don't necessarily get extremely angry with the opposition, I do tend to be a rather aggressive debater and I think that causes me to come off the wrong way and often leads to me hurting my side of the debate instead of helping it. I like to think I'm improving little by little in that regard though.
     
    What? I'm perfect of course.

    I'm probably not able to see all my faults (which would be another fault) but I think I have a problem of perhaps oversimplifying the morality of and making too many things into moral arguments and then assuming a place of moral superiority. From my perspective I guess I feel like, as a default, you have to take the stance supporting the side being oppressed or without power if and until there's enough evidence or a strong enough argument not to. To me it makes logical and moral sense to come to an issue from this standpoint, at least initially. I can get frustrated with people if/when they don't do this and appear to come into a debate from a place of hatred or prejudice or blind support for a position regardless of the real-world effects. But, I mean, I know that all of these things I don't like seeing in other people are things I'm sure I do/have done myself. And like I try to be aware of that and not do it, but sometimes it feels like I'm arguing with someone who doesn't do the same and, I dunno, that bothers me.

    /ramble
     
    I always get angry in certain simple things, I just know after that I did a mistake and it was my fault and I learn something from it.
     
    When it's a topic I am educated on and am passionate about, I like to tear ignorant people apart and leave their tattered remains on the ground for the vultures.

    That often leaves me rather unpopular. Do I care to fix that? Not really. If I end up doing that, it's probably because of two factors. First, I'm right. Second, the other person is so unbelievably ignorant there is just no hope for them and I need to get a closing statement in so at least the smart people with the popcorn can understand my point.

    If you couldn't tell, I also have a teeny weeny superiority complex.
     
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