Of Creation, Trolls and Griefers

It is exceptionally easy to destroy things, it is a lot harder to create. One of the things that used to annoy me about the post-modernist movement I had to study as part of my Arts degree, was how so very ready it was to destroy other theories, and yet provide nothing in its place [...]

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Conflict Management

Something I accidentally learnt in RL this year, has been accidentally applied in SL these past few months. I’ve only fully realised and appreciated this after what I’ve been through in the last 24 hours. Conflict management. I’ve been forced to learn the various theories of how best to manage conflict because the course I’ve been [...]

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Personal Attacks, taking it Personally, and Blogging

One of the first logical flaws we used to teach students to identify, in a uni philosophy course I tutored, was ad hominem attacks. Attacking the person instead of the argument. Essentially the error is made when someone presents a reasoned argument and instead of attacking the premises, the attack is made against the person [...]

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