blackwidow wrote:I have never attacked any of the posters on this site. Every post that I've made have been based only on my views.
Rarely have I even used my own words but the words of others to illustrate my thoughts. I've posted articles from well-informed writers that receive no comment or discussion...
Ad Hominem attacks, sweeping generalizations, straw men and red herrings do not make for quality discussions.
Actually, I
have commented on the offerings you've posted, and have invited your discussion.
Every time I post I am inviting discussion. You, in return, have failed to respond at all to my legitimate and pointed critiques of your position. Yes, I've described your ideas as fantastical, and have categorized them in many respects as "liberal" (a term that, like it or not, has real and definable content), but attacking your ideas and/or mindset is different than attacking
you as a person. So I hope that you aren't referring to me in this post.
If you want to have a quality discussion, you have to be willing to argue and defend the points that you make...not simply repost them again and again, as if no criticisms of them have been raised. Pick any sentence I've ever written on this site, and press me on it. Attack it. I will defend it directly, or will admit defeat if I can't. What I won't do is pretend that you didn't call it into question at all, or answer with yet another platitude amounting to the same exact thing that I wrote in the first place.
Quality discussion isn't polite. Quality discussion is
war. May the best ideas (i.e., mine
) win.
