...aren't worth getting into. We know, before a word is spoken, how they will play out. We can hear our set-piece speech forming in our own head... and it doesn't require much imagination to guess what will be said to us in return.
Conversation that doesn't actually involve listening, absorbing, digesting and allowing for some possibility of change as a result of the exchange is never very worthwhile.
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like
administering medicine to the dead. (Thomas Paine)
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