Outside the tfp, there is a very small group of people i will argue with, and then only because i generally trust their ability to see things and make sense of things in ways that are complementary to the ways i see and make sense of things- two heads are better than one. I don't think being the person with the right perspective is as important to me as being reasonable- i don't want to be a person with whom an argument isn't worthwhile(at least not when i'm offline, when i'm online it doesn't really matter).
I guess that would mean that i mostly prefer happiness to outspokenness, but there are exceptions.
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