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Most basic elements of civil discussion, especially over matters of substantive disagreement, come down to a single theme: making the other person in a conversation a partner, not an adversary.

— Peter Boghossian How to Have Impossible Conversations (2019)

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Peter Boghossian's techniques of friendly persuasion are not mine, and maybe I'd be more effective if they were. They are undoubtedly very persuasive — and very much needed.

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Know when to walk away, even when the conversation is going well.

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The most difficult thing to accept for people who work hard at forming their beliefs on the basis of evidence is that not everyone forms their beliefs in that way.

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To argue that people need faith is to abandon hope, and to condescend and accuse the faithful of being incapable of understanding the importance of reason and rationality.

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When your conversation partner is getting angry, the single best thing you can do in most circumstances is to stop whatever else you're doing and listen.

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