How to be Prick on an Email List |
- Treat anyone who disagrees with your viewpoint as an antagonist
- Mock the antagonist
- Include smirks, chuckles and smilies to feign goodwill
- Feign incomprehension to imply the antagonist is muddleheaded
- Assert the antagonist is wrong without further comment or clarification
- Argue by false analogy in order to remove the force of the antagonist's argument
- Claim there is no way to scientifically prove the assertion of the antagonist
- Claim any moral argument to be invalid
- Remain enigmatical
- Look for possible hot buttons and push them
- Claim the antagonist is giving Freudian self-revelation, not insight into the topic
- Treat the antagonist as an enemy not as a seeker of truth
- At no point set aside ego
- Never explain
- Never admit possible misunderstanding
- Speak as if from a mountaintop
- Respond to every post in obsessive defense of your position
- Do not ever step back, survey the conflict and seek a way to clarify or enlighten
- Treat all Doms as potential usurpers of your self-imagined standing as Alpha Male
© 1999 Dubnglas
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