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Originally Posted by TheBig3
Not that I recall, but I'm happy to let bygones be bygones.
Regarding your comment on debate. If engaging in verbal combat is bullying, then the premise of the site is based on bullying (which I do not believe it is). I don't bully anyone here (in my estimation) but I do challenge ideas.
People tend to get offended when I don't just let whatever BS they've cooked up fly, but I never attack people personally.
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I agree about the bygones. And I know you don't make personal attacks - those are the boundaries that you respect.
I disagree that MB is a verbal combat zone, though, and that's maybe where we differ the most. You say that you challenge ideas, and that's obviously fine. But it seems to me that you present a polemic, add vitriol, and wait for somebody to react. In other words, purposefully incite arguments by positing something hypothetical like "I'm so sick of all the idiotic people who 'X' because they think it's cool to do so! I'm goddamned angry about those stupid people who 'X' because they have ruined 'Y'!!!"
Then you wait for somebody to say, "Um, I don't think people really even 'X' very much and 'Y' seems fine, why are you so upset?" Then you proceed to argue against what I guess you suppose is "BS they've cooked up." However you, sir, seem to be the chef of the BS. Sometimes you get to make a fool of somebody, other times you end up playing the fool, and it all seems like fun to you. Like maybe you use the internet as training for your future career in politics. Perhaps you are perfecting the art of online verbal combat - a sport that I find ugly and useless, like politics in a lot of ways.
Granted, I probably haven't seen even a quarter of your MB arguments so maybe I'm overemphasizing a tiny fraction of them.
I know I shouldn't give in to preconceived notions but somehow your posts always seem to me to be designed to get under someone's skin, one way or another. But you've got an agreeable, charismatic, innocent side as well. You probably should have been born a Kennedy. Anyway, now I look like a BS cook so I'm done.