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To a certain sort of person, conversation is a game of arriving at these antithesis statements:

   * Inlining code is the best form of breaking up code. 
   * Love is evil.
   * Rightwing populism is a return to leftwing politics. 
   * etc.

The purpose is to induce aporia (puzzlement), and hence make it possible to evaluate apparent contradictions. However, a lot of people resent feeling uncertain, and so, people who speak this way are often disliked.


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