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Originally Posted by Ourcrazymodern?
This ability to quote those we disagree with seems to me to be f**king up the conversation. While acknowledging I don't make points very well, I have to ask: What's the point of picking apart another person's statement, point by point, while leaving out the other points? One might as well say "Allah ahkbar" and ignore it.
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Never really understood the point. Usually just devolves into petty bickering of minor points to a larger argument, in my experience.
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