rare, that’s why it makes the news.\
[**R2**]{}: & The defender shouldn’t even have been brought to trial in the first place. That doesn’t make it any better. Somebody breaks into your home and threatens your family with rape and murder, they deserve serious injury at the very least.\

For example, contrast the two informal dialogic exchanges about the death penalty in Table \[sample-quote-response\] with the traditional media professional summary in Table \[death-procon\]. We might expect the argument in Table \[death-procon\] to be more convincing, because it is carefully written to be balanced and exhaustive [@ReedRowe04]. On the other hand, it seems possible that people find dialogic arguments such as those in Table \[sample-quote-response\] more engaging and learn more from them. And indeed, about 90% of the people in online forums are so-called lurkers [@Whittaker96; @NonneckePreece00; @Preeceetal04], and do not post, suggesting that they are in fact [**reading**]{} opinionated dialogs such as those in Table \[sample-quote-response\] for interest or entertainment.

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& Proponents of the death penalty say it is an important tool for preserving law and order, deters crime, and costs less than life imprisonment. They argue that retribution or “an eye for an eye” honors the victim, helps 