>From: Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com>
>
> >From: "Zero Powers" <zero_powers@hotmail.com>
>
> >Only if you can turn down the posturing and the rhetoric and turn
> >up the facts and a *reasonable* debate.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >From: "Zero Powers" <zero_powers@hotmail.com>
>
> >I politely disagree. A statement of fact, no matter how blunt, is
> >neither pejorative nor inconducive to polite disagreement.If I had
> >called the NRA and its sympathizers "violent antisocial irrational
> >paranoid maniacs," *that* would be pejorative. If my quoted
> >phrase offends your sensibilities, I would suggest that you are
> >ill prepared to engage in any passionate debate.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>First you call for a reasonable debate, then in your next message
>you do a 180 and call for a passionate debate.
Two things: First reason and passion, although different, are not
necessarily mutually exclusive. I believe that one can be both passionate
and reasonable. I consider that I have both of those qualities and when I
am in debate about something which arouses my passions, both of those
qualities will be displayed.
Second, in the the post wherein I refer to "passionate debate" I certainly
did *not* "call for a passionate debate." I merely pointed out my opinion
that someone who would be offended by my the statement contained in my
earlier post would appear to me to be "ill prepared to engage in any
passionate debate."
In future you might want to pay closer attention.
-Zero
"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past"
--Thomas Jefferson
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