The Golden Rules of the Sceptic

Ever since my first forray into meta land, rareb and I had a very lively discourse on various of my meta topics (i.e. nationality as a privilege, the different way of discussing issues in American and European circles etc.) and a few days ago, rareb developed and wrote down her Rules of the Sceptic, a synopsis of various rules to discuss issues in a manner that doesn't exclude anyone and hopefully leads to a sensible discussion instead of degrading into various kinds of not so so nice ways to discuss things, based on her research on various authors she named in her sources section.

I asked her to translate them into English so I could also post them here, which I hereby did. I took the whole unadultered, unabridged text, so everything under the cut is by rareb and can also be read and commented on in her journal. If you feel compelled to comment (remember, comment, not flame) on it, you can do so both here and in rareb's journal, whichever way you want it. So here you go:

( An essay by rareb )