FirmhandKY
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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle No apology. No withdrawal. When I put those two things together, it adds up to no integrity. Why on earth would I ever consider going half way round the world to meet some slob without an ounce of integrity? tweak, Again, you are attempting to impose some social control on me, through the time-tested method of "the guilt trip". A type of a guilt trip is "political correctness", which I suspect you are quite experienced and skilled within your standard social milieu. But to be effective, political correctness relies on the other person having (1) a fear of social or professional ostracization, and (2) some uncertainty about their own beliefs or expression of those beliefs. It also requires the social or legal mechanism in order to bring about the consequences that the attacked individual fears. However, it isn't really effective with someone like me, who has a pretty good grasp of what they believe and why, can separate BS out pretty well, and is old enough not to really give a two-turd shit about the opinion of someone whose opinion I value not. As well, other than attempting to get me to violate the TOS, or isolating me from the social fabric of CM, you have no other legal or social paths of power. In other words, your current attempt to modify my beliefs and behavior have no leverage with me at all. Your insults and bullying tactics before did not work, and they will not work with me in the future. Your attempts at intellectual obfuscation and intimidation have not worked and will not work. Your attempts at belittling and denying my own educational accomplishments will not and do not work. I, my dear, am your worse nightmare: you are less than nothing to me as an opponent. I do occasionally hold out hopes that you are capable of breaking through your fear, anger and political correctness to become a full human being, but I don't really expect it. The only way that you can affect my behavior is to change yours. In other words, cut all the crap and games and open up to me as an individual, let us cross swords with the honest possibility of agreeing to disagree without being disagreeable. Firm
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