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To: Lane3 who wrote (71944)	6/13/2008 9:22:27 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542812

The question is at what point does that negative emotion become a chronic or debilitating or environmentally non-constructive problem. Assessing the nearness of that point may be easier for someone not caught up in it than for someone who is not only caught up in it but shares it with a reinforcing group. So whenever I see you making a post that I believe is too groupthink and emotional, I can undercut your arguments based on that subjective criticism? You won't mind having everyone here apply their standards of groupthink and emotionalism to your arguments? It's a fine principle but the implementation gets really messy. Your calm, rational, well-reasoned arguments can easily sound like emotional groupthink to me and others, especially anyone who doesn't agree with you. Just another means to squelch debate in the end. "If you stopped to think about that calmly, you wouldn't believe/say that!" We have heard that a lot on the thread this year.