markus1 wrote:
...If someone posts something that you disagree with, or that you think you may not fully understand...ask them for a further explanation, or PM them and discuss it privately if you feel the need. You may, in the end, find that what at first seemed a difference of opinion, turns out to be support of an opinion that you share...
Markus, thanks for the sobering reminder.
I went off...
I think it has to do with a lot of pent-up anxiety right now (dear friend just died, cousin getting shipped off to Iraq, relationship issues, 70 hour work-week just to name a few)...
However, I think it is evident that there was a quite obvious implication that the people posting extensively on this subject were doing so for no other reason than to abate their own guilty consciences, and yes, I took great offense to that; I found it to be (unwittingly) belittling and condescending.
He did not
intend to say that. I realize that. I have realized that from the beginning of my discourse with him. But intended or not, it is what he said.
Unfortunately, I took a far too confrontational approach at pointing this out. This I concede. So my goal was lost on account of my own aggression.
Apologies to all.