Quote:No Dave. I do not agree.
Not on a serious debate thread at least.
Which is what I'm talking about.
Have you heard of "resistance analysis"?
No.
Quote:
Walking away from the dogs is the equivalent of not entering the thread.
I don't object to that at all. It is being on the thread,
a debate thread, and then using Ignore that I object to.
OK; we begin to agree,
but in my canine example, the loud, nasty dog arrived during
the continuity of the thread.
U have asserted elsewhere (essentially) that using the Ignore function
during debate is similar to fleeing a battlefield during combat.
Its ez to understand that point of vu.
However, I have known it to occur during debate perhaps on
a thread concerning the relative merits of brave aggressive defense,
as distinct from pacifistic surrender to the most inimical desires
of one 's enemy,
a stranger to the debate arrives and uses
causticly obscene language to unburden himself of an unsolicited
(negative) evaluation of someone 's mental abilities,
or he (off topic) informs one of the debaters of the sexual preferences
or aberrant sexual practices of that debater, perhaps alleging incest.
I do not necessarily need the victim of this rhetorical abuse
to be myself, to aim the Ignore function at him and use it.
( I m a pretty good marksman, with the Ignore button.)
I deem such a person to be ineffably below acceptable standards
of civility and I can effectively eradicate him from my world
(meaning my sphere of cognition).
I can banish and he will vanish (permanently).
I have known some of such people to have no value whatsoever.
I have known others of such people to have insufficient relative value
to permit them to have further contact with my mind.
Its like keeping dirty people out of your home.
Quote:The one benefit I see in it is that those who use it have completely discredited
any scientific integrity they claim to possess.
They just want "off topic" and "irrelevant" to mean anything not on their own playing field.
In other words they want the opposition to lie down.
I'm the only one who isn't scared of their browbeating, bullying tactics.
I don t mean to be immodest,
but I will not agree that I am scared of their browbeating
and there is no such thing as bullying
me; that cannot happen
because I am perfectly willing to counterbully; it just results in a flame war.
I have been involved in many threads of controversy
since around 2000 on Abuzz. I don 't remember experiencing fear.
I don t take these on-line debates too seriously.
David
