Conversational Terrorism

It was interesting to consider the all the conversational cheats that can occur without even thinking about it. Although the examples in the readings were exaggerated to add clarity and humor the points they were trying to make were still true. The five main topics addressed, ad hominem variants, sleight of mind fallacies, delay tactics, question as opportunity, and cheap shot tactics and irritants, were interesting to consider and the exaggerated examples made it easier to see how degrading and offensive those types of conversational errors can be.