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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (230273)	4/22/2005 6:29:19 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1573994

Thanks Personal attacks almost rule out the chance to convince someone about your side of the argument. True its unlikely that you will get someone to make a 180 degree turn, but if you show them some respect you might get them to pay attention enough to shift just a little bit, or at least recognize that your opinion is not as crazy as they thought it was. Also even if personal attacks didn't cause people to not pay attention to you, and if they didn't cause people to get angry, they really are irrelevant most of the time. Even if your opponent really has the negative qualities that you (BTW I'm using "you" generically not referring to you personally Ted) say they have it still doesn't prove that they are wrong. Even idiots can be right sometimes ("a stopped clock is right twice a day..."). Sometimes I might engage in a mild personal attack when someone attacks me first, or when they twist my words around to try and claim I said something I didn't say, but most of the time I don't even have to try hard to avoid such attacks. Nothing someone says on SI can really hurt me so there is no use getting more then mildly upset about what someone posts. It's not like if I trash someone bad enough the world will shift to my position on any issue. I don’t win anything by "shouting" someone down. Tim