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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (2300)1/16/2003 3:04:47 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 15987
 
Actually, Zonder and I have managed to have a few good discussions without having things deteriorate. Of course, I am a sweetie<g>.......



To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (2300)1/17/2003 5:33:35 AM
From: zonder  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 15987
 
>>However, one of us here is incapable of defending his opinions without personal insults, and that's not me.
<<
1. That's a personal insult.


That's rich, coming from someone who has more than once been warned on various threads for a rather unpleasant taste for personal insults.

The real question is this: can *anyone* engage you in any sort of a discussion at all without eventually discharging a volley of well-deserved dismissive abuse in your general direction? I think the answer is no, and I think all the evidence supports that.

Just because you cannot carry a conversation without eventually (quite soon, actually) degenerating into insults does not mean that the rest of us are so beyond self-control and civil conversation.