[shibumi]

"The debate is only on going between two of us now,"

You mean you and me? (Never, and I mean never assume you are alone on this forum.)

"...but you are welcome to read up and offer an opinion..."

On what? Dogs? Eaker? You? Law Degrees?
Will there be a quiz?

"...or kick back with a beer and serve up some drunken innuendo.

I don't drink. (Alcohol.) I'm perfectly capable of immuendo without it, but I prefer the single entendre.

"To thine own self, be thou, true."

If you're going to feign erudition by quoting Shakespeare, at least do it accurately.

Polonius:
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell, my blessing season this in thee!

[RachelFaith]

I was not “quoting” Shakespeare... I was using the same source as he, in my own phrase of it: Socrates!

But then, as with most “party crashers” you have not come for the debate of the subject, but the sport of the hunt. Many against the one.

And no, I don’t mean You and Me. YOU have not yet offered substance of the debate. Why would you think I was speaking of or about you?

Everyone else, most of the sane, abandoned this thread hours ago and wished me good luck if I stayed to deal with a group of folks to which they obviously have had more than one brushing.

I do not care. If you debate the issues, I will as well. If you are here only for spoils, so be it. I know how to deal with that as well.

I hope you are entertained.

[Vendome]

Shiite,

That was deep...

[Salamander]

Allow me to interject my own obscure Shakespearian jape:

“Aroint, thee rump-fed ronyon!”