[tired&retired]

“Exactly — the comment was addressed to Romney, and tired&retired knew it, but went on to cast me as a sociopathic troll in post #12. I wasn’t offended.

Too bad he didn’t have the grace to apologize.”

Whether the statement is about Romney, his mother, another FR member, or even your mother does not matter. Name calling does not add facts or information to the point you are making. It is meant to stir up emotions and manipulate people who can’t understand the facts or circumstances of the situation at hand.

Ad hominem is usually used by people who attack the traits of an opponent as a means to invalidate their arguments when they cannot refute the merits of their argument.

Am I to apologize for your inability to understand my statements? If so, I apologize. However, I will not call you a name to paint a derogatory word picture upon your image.

As to the use of the descriptor “sociopathic,” the word has a traditional meaning that is not within the characteristics you exhibit in your posts. Your use of the word “sociopathic” to describe my perception of you is a “straw man” argument imposed upon me by you that again has no merit. It is merely another common fallacy of logical argumentation.

[SoConPubbie]

Whether the statement is about Romney, his mother, another FR member, or even your mother does not matter. Name calling does not add facts or information to the point you are making. It is meant to stir up emotions and manipulate people who can’t understand the facts or circumstances of the situation at hand.

Actually it does, all your self-defense not withstanding, because it paints an entirely different picture of the original poster as someone willing to simply emotionally attack another Freeper Poster, which Gene Eric does not. He post usually provide enough context to clearly provide a cogent and reasonable reason for the use of derisive language.

So, your original post, implied that Gene post was a perfect example of the diatribe being presented on this thread, and clearly, if you had either done your own research and read a little more you would have known that it was not a perfect example. But no, you gloss over that and then try to continue to defend your misguided post.

Finally, the use of strong language when referring to Mitt Romney is necessitated by the utter and complete deceit of Mitt Romney and his progressive liberalism.

If you had been paying attention, you would have known that.

And yes, you do need to apologize to Gene Eric. Be honest, don't lie about having correctly pegged Gene with your first comment.

Don't do a back-handed apology about how we did not understand your comment.

[Gene Eric]

You described me as the type of troll depicted in the article. And as a compliment to the article, you elaborated in your initial post the following:

It's easy to underestimate how many of these types of sickos are out there: There are millions of sociopaths in the U.S. alone.

You were careless in making me an example, and went too far out of your way to discredit my objections to the article's assertions.

Furthermore, I don't criticize the family members of politicians, and that includes Romney's mom. Of course this is something you incorrectly surmised by reviewing my posts on other threads.

I didn't ask you for an apology. And I don't need nor want your demonstrations of forum decorum. I appreciate, however, the consideration.