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Originally posted by DSTCHAOS
I am LOLing at your response to that post. I find it funny and the reason is as follows.
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Irishpipes' response was about the topic of abortion, namely, that it is nearly impossible to find a common ground on the subject. I find nothing funny enough to LOL about this, either.
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Originally posted by DSTCHAOS
You call it arguing and I call it discussing/debating. It is an exchange of ideas and light can always be shed on such issues without people completely changing their positions.
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OK, what light has been shed here? What
NEW ideas have been exchanged here that haven't been exchanged in other Internet discussion boards, in front of abortion clinics or water coolers at the office, in the classrooms, or anywhere else?
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Originally posted by DSTCHAOS
Grown adults should know that before they embark on such discussions and end with "well, let's just agree to disagree" or "why express my viewpoint...you're going to disagree anyway." I hate consolation prizes.
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Personally, I don't look at these kinds of debates as a contest to be "won" by someone and someone else has to get a "consolation prize". This isn't a game we're talking about.
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Originally posted by DSTCHAOS
Call me insensitive but I tend to mix objectivity with subjectivity and critique the discussion format as independent of the topic being discussed.
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Critiquing the discussion format is irrelevant to the topic being discussed, and it should be obvious to most "grown adults" that this is Irishpipes' way of trying to gracefully disagree without things getting ugly regarding an issue as emotional as this.