Bullet points are a rhetorical cudgel. Effective but blunt.
The rhetorician is perceived as far more elegant and genteel when he uses, say, a rapier. Thrusts and parties of points and counter-points that flow seamlessly one into another.
It depends on your audience. Sometimes you need a cudgel.
MichaelJ
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