Techster
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Just a frustrating argument. You stepped into the middle and changed direction of the original intent of the posts.
Being serious here: One of the things inherently challenging about internet communication is that you can't see the person on the other side of the words. It would help to know more about a person when engaging with them. You engage differently with a woman vs a man, a 90 year old vs a 40 year old, etc; and those differing ways of engagement are often cultural ways of showing respect for differences. I'm truly wondering how old you are. It's totally fine to be young, it would just change the way I would engage with you. I would probably be able to show you more respect if I knew more about you. I'm sorry if I've offended. If you're not young, that's cool too, and I'm sorry I insinuated wrongly. If you don't want to reveal that, that's totally understandable.
Understood. Sorry if I changed the original intent...I was just going by that statement that I quoted you on.
My pet peeve is when people get personal and start name calling. Not that I haven't been guilty of it on occassions...but to me, when name calling gets thrown around I assume a poster has nothing intelligent to offer to a discussion anymore. It's especially needless to say something like "It's there in the numbers for anybody who can think." Just because someone interprets numbers one way (usually to the benefit of their argument) doesn't mean someone else interprets numbers the same way. You can ask Democrats and Republicans about numbers interpretations.
As for personal information...that's irrelevant to me. You judge a person by what they post, not by their age (or race, or sex, etc.) If I sound like I"m 13 (and maybe I do) then so be it.
Like you said, if we were sitting at a table having drinks, maybe the discussion goes differently. Tone and how you approach things goes a long ways...and that gets lost on the internet.