December 21, 2012 07:09AM
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In the worst case scenario, the truth shines all the brighter in the face of shittily produced arguments.
In the worst case scenario a guy makes himself look like an idiot (In this case, Randomguy).
Would you rather have people not complain at all, or suffer dealing with some inane ones so you can also receive the good?
Criticism, AT ALL, is a good thing - And I support even idiots being able to criticize.
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If there really is this preponderance—which there must be unless human affairs are, and have always been, in an almost desperate state—it is owing to a quality of the human mind, the source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being, namely, that his errors are corrigible. He is capable of rectifying his mistakes, by discussion and experience. Not by experience alone. There must be discussion, to show how experience is to be interpreted. Wrong opinions and practices gradually yield to fact and argument: but facts and arguments, to produce any effect on the mind, must be brought before it. Very few facts are able to tell their own story, without comments to bring out their meaning. The whole strength and value, then, of human judgment, depending on the one property, that it can be set right when it is wrong, reliance can be placed on it only when the means of setting it right are kept constantly at hand. In the case of any person whose judgment is really deserving of confidence, how has it become so? Because he has kept his mind open to criticism of his opinions and conduct. Because it has been his practice to listen to all that could be said against him; to profit by as much of it as was just, and expound to himself, and upon occasion to others, the fallacy of what was fallacious.
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But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
So, again, I see nothing wrong with allowing people open criticism of any presented system, game, or behavior - Worst case scenario you gain something. Best case scenario you gain something.
No loss unless you start trying to discourage the discussion.
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Rade |
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Demtok |
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Zruulg |
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Batman |
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Frosty |
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ORB |
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Quas |
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ORB |
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ORB |
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ORB |
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cenatar |
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vortexmagus |
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Sam |
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kadsuane |
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Quas |
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kadsuane |
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cenatar |
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kadsuane |
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cenatar |
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kadsuane |
December 21, 2012 01:11PM |
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Randomguy |
December 21, 2012 09:52PM |
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hug |
December 21, 2012 09:23AM |
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Demtok |
December 21, 2012 05:19PM |
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Sam |
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Quas |
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hug |
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Sam |
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ghuljun_thul |
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Quas |
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ghuljun_thul |
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Pro |
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sevriis |
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tesline |
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deriveh |
December 21, 2012 07:03AM |
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tesline |
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Demtok |
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RobDarken |
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Batman |
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tesline |
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Batman |
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tesline |
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Batman |
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tesline |
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Batman |
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Flipside Oreo |
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Batman |
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tesline |
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Dzeffo |
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Randomguy |
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Batman |
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Blackbird |
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tesline |
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tesline |
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Batman |
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tesline |
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Batman |
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wishore |
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Randomguy |
December 21, 2012 03:37PM |
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wishore |
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satchmo |
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daning |
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Elystan |
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