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Take the statement "On there side". This statement takes me back to an argument I accidentally started, which until now is my biggest lesson in energy conservation, and picking only worthy battles. I was trying to convince 20 people that it was incorrect and should have been "their". There was no convincing people and it was due to either lack of knowledge or ganging up on the odd one out.

From this, I learnt that you should save energy for worthwhile causes as can be seen in these stupid Asch experiments of which I have seen many variations. Each video I see, you can almost tell that the person is experiencing internal conflict with what's going on outside and just vocalising the group opinion.

Seeing this experiment over and over again is much like separating salt from water using a bunsen burner, over... and over again. IT might be better to ask candidates are you mickey mouse? are you a douchebag? your mother's a whore true or false?

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A better argument for this is

If it rains the ground gets wetIts not rainingTherefore the ground is not wet.

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