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Raoul — (archived)

This is something I needed lessons for (at work): to understand how a conversation on the phone can degenerate into personal attacks after having been factual for a few seconds (some are experts to it, luckily we know who they are). On the phone, there's no escape but there's swiftness (and how to return back to facts requires experience), on the web, there's a great weapon: to ignore the other...but there's another problem...there are traces of what we say and those traces can turn against those who leave them....

If anybody has a point to make, he enhances it with arguments, only arguments..no need to be insulting because insults are no arguments, show the weaknesses of those who utter them and always turn against them, in the form, for instance, of a bad reputation.

Another problem is having gotten a reputation from indeed something that turned wrong (the Face on Mars for instance). Some have written books, made a living from the legend....will they admit they were wrong from the beginning? It might be quite humiliating to them...but OTOH, admitting they were wrong might very well bring their reputation back to a better , long lasting level!

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