>>"Well, now, that's a flat-out lie. Discussion, debate and even mockery are not "persecution." Only do the paranoid see it thus."
> Ah, the old dishonest tactic of referring to a differing opinion as a lie.
Nope. Mockery = Persecution isn't an opinion... it's nonsense.
Does this look like persecution to you:
For the record, it's not. Nor is this:
Nor this:
So, neither is this:
As you have decided that it'd be Really Cool to be a martyr, and since there's nobody out there actually trying to throw you to the lions, you'll just have to make up persecution. In that case, there is little point in further debate with you, as I disagree that even the most rancid of mockery rises to anything even remotely resembling persecution when it's not being forced on anyone.
"Nope. Mockery = Persecution isn't an opinion... it's nonsense...In that case, there is little point in further debate with you..."
Who are you trying to kid? You're not trying to debate with me. You have yet even to acknowledge the argument I actually made, instead constructing distortions such as the one quoted above, and shooting down your own straw men.
You unwittingly demonstrate that you are firing blindly rather than debating, rather than responding to arguments actually advanced, with the last few words of your note: "...when it's not being forced on anyone."
In my discussion of the cases in which mockery can rise to the level of persecution, I specified precisely those cases in which it is being forced on people. Had you read and comprehended those arguments, you'd have known that.
But you didn't read and comprehend what I said, so you didn't know that. Didn't bother you, though. You just kept setting up the straw men.
You did get one thing right: since you lack either the brainpower or the intellectual honesty to address the arguments actually made, there's no point in continuing.
I looked up the page source for the laughing face in your post near post 557.
It includes break clear="all"...
What does that do specifically?
Cheers!