Why “argumentative” is being discussed
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Thank you for the kind words. Honestly, having gone through recovery and grappling with all the shit I didn’t want to acknowledge has been a gift. Learning to not hate myself fo…
by howtoquitwell · Oct 21, 2026
everyone deserves a second chance, many less deserve a third. it's pretty clear that if one cannot answer a question regarding their viewpoint, then the subject isnt understood…
by thin_carapace · Oct 17, 2026
im a bit confused. plenty of dictatorships, those labelled both left (communism) and right (fascism), disregard environmental factors in the name of progress. for the sake of ar…
by thin_carapace · Oct 17, 2026
Oh God, that's why pastors keep giving long-winded sermons that are claim after claim after claim and without any argumentative structure (and divine inspiration stands in for s…
by jhanschoo · Oct 16, 2026
which is your next argumentative step? say your not disrupting an ecosystem that probably outlives the early human specie by hundreds of thousands of years? average North Americ…
by luqtas · Oct 15, 2026
Many of them don't. From my own experience, there is a low percentage of dentists who actually care about patients, and those are mostly either curious students or just people w…
by u01237 · Oct 15, 2026
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In the American legal system, argumentative is an evidentiary objection raised in response to a question which prompts a witness to draw inferences from facts of the case. Read more on Wikipedia