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To: greenspirit who wrote (119686)	11/16/2003 11:31:05 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 281500

That post was about an "opinion" Mr. Cummings. It was not about a poster. As I said in my post, there IS a difference. Opinions can be ugly, or be perceived as ugly, without necessitating an attack upon a person who holds the opinion. This is one basis upon which reasoned, or even emotional, but peaceful, debate, rests. It is important to understand that the post is not the person and the person is not the post. To state it succinctly, there is no place for the ad hominem in civil discussion- it makes no point, and it taints the atmosphere. Obviously you "feel" the enforcement is selective, but I think it is possible you are missing the basis for the judgment. I hope that Faultline will let us both know if we have erred.