To: Oeconomicus who wrote (119691 ) 6/12/2005 10:44:23 PM From: epicure Read Replies (1) | Respond to Ideas do not invite personal attacks. If people want to read only ideas that agree with their own, or attack people for ideas that are different from their own, they should stick to places where people post only ideas that agree with their own ideas. I do not think it is fair to read ideas that are different, and then attack the person when it is the idea you do not like (unless it is the person you do not like, and you camouflage the personal attack as being about ideas, which is probably even worse than simply getting emotional about ideas. I don't know what to say about people who do that, but it's not something I want to engage in.). It is especially ironic when the person who attacks others complains that people who think differently don't want to talk to him. I thought I was being polite to tell you by PM that to expect liberals to want to talk to you about ideas, when your posts attack people personally for ideas, and in a very nasty way, is not a logical way to approach discussion, or other people- but I did not want to be abused by you, and since you had already abused me publicly, I thought I could expect worse from you in private. I think that was logical rather than cowardly, so we will have to disagree on that.
