Rules for a Conversation
Note: Here conversation means any serious exchange of ideas between two or more persons.
Nothing in any manner has any reference to any person whosoever.
As I am interested in ethics also, by observing what usually happens in conversations at various fora from a chat between a few friends or acquaintances to a large organized meeting to various WhatsApp groups, I have tried to form and compile a number of rules that may help a productive and mutually beneficial conversation to pleasantly take place.
The following rules may serve in lieu of an ethics of a conversation.
- If someone considers a person not a free agent, there is no point in talking to and arguing with him. That’s the first prerequisite of any conversation.
- Not every comment is an invitation to debate. Even if it appears so, sometimes let it go unanswered, unrefuted. The heavens is not going to fall.
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