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I make my mission to express my point of view, not to make converts.

Please do what you can to convert me, if you see me going out of bounds. I respect your intellect and am not askurd of your aggressive manner of debate.

I hate to be stuck on stupid and want to be in possession of the truth whenever I can be. My mission is to ask questions and toss out theories, hoping to be corrected and steered to the truth of a thing.

I bet there are many others here who appreciate your (and others') knowledge and willingness to share it with the group.

Ass kissing mode: OFF.

I generally don't mean to be aggressive in debate, just terse, efficient. I know more is often and natrually read into my style and not infrequent "inartful expression."

Sometimes I "get into it" with an opponent. You'd notice the difference. I did so in the Cruz in eligible/ineligible debates with a handful of posters that I genuinely disrepsect.

-- ... hoping to be corrected and steered to the truth --

I'd be one of the last people you would want to count on, in that regard.

Nearly 100% of the time, being wrong has ZERO ramification, but when a fact is important to you, do the heavy lifting yourself. I trust ZERO of what I read on FR. Literally ZERO. That's why I make an effort to link to sources (not in every post, but somewhere along the line of making a contention), so people can dismiss my take. If I can look it up, so can everybody else.

-- I bet there are many others here who appreciate your (and others') knowledge and willingness to share it with the group. --

Yes, of course. And I appreciate the thoughts and gratitude. There is also a nont-insignificant population that finds me wrong and a boor. So goes the war.