@hightor,
Quote:@oralloy,
blatham yelled, "Look everyone! I think what that person thinks!"
Such an odd complaint. Very often I do think what some other person thinks. Hardly unusual for this to happen. Our complainant likely and often finds himself thinking what Ronald Reagan thought or thinking what Trump thinks. Or Sean Hannity or Limbaugh, etc. Certainly he has even been led to think in some new way, having been convinced by another. After all, why would we bother to read others or listen to others if not to be influenced by them in some manner? And why would anyone write here or in any similar situation where ideas are up for contest except to attempt some influence on others' thinking - or to help clarify one's own thoughts with the hope that a clarified version will be more useful in the future as a tool to influence?
The Constitution itself was a product of debate, discussion and argumentation where those involved used other sources contemporary or from earlier periods (as georgeob often uses references to classical thinkers/writers).
For these reasons and others, I am not bothered in the slightest by this odd complaint. Also, Oralloy's mother was much uglier than my mother.