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Originally posted by angelove
re: Dionysus' "short bus" comment:
AARGH! 
Just like HederaNaturale with her "think before you type" comment - just because someone has a different opinion than you does not mean that he or she is not thinking or should be "riding the short bus." Negative comments about the intelligence of those with whom you disagree hamper the spirit of debate inherent in this thread and the entire internet message board world. If the only response to an argument that you can formulate is to call someone stupid, that really doesn't help your side of the debate, nor will it persuade anyone to change his or her mind.
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I've said my piece about the pregnant PNMs, so I'm not saying any more, but in regard to THIS comment, angelove, I feel the need to clarify. I don't have a problem with a disagreement... those who know me in person know that I aLWAYS play devil's advocate and muck through EVERY side of an issue. However, when you make categorcial statements like, "you can't have it all," "it's completely unrealistic" it suggests to me that you haven't really looked at the issue enough to know all the sides and angles... if you had, I wouldn't have had a rebuttal, would I?
Telling someone to think and inferring that they need to be on the "short bus" are two different matters.
I wasn't calling you stupid or insulting your intelligence. I was calling you short-sighted and insulting your breadth of thought. If you think that those two are one and the same, then perhaps it's you who's hampering the spirit of debate in the thread. You do that quite well when you call people out on non-issues.