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To: GlennD
Discuss the issues all you want but do not make it personal.

Attributing motives - and otherwise reading another poster's mind is "making it personal."

779 posted on 07/28/2007 9:37:05 PM PDT by Religion Moderator
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To: Religion Moderator
Attributing motives - and otherwise reading another poster's mind is "making it personal."

But, but, your honor:
Discounting all the arguments your interlocutors (not to say antagonists) make on the implicit or explicit grounds that they are conditioned is not personal? "poisoning the well" is not personal? I may bomb a town with you in it but may not kill you, unless I kill everyone around you? If every time you make an argument I do not address your argument as such but say, "People of your confession are all brainwashed," and continue making and developing my assertions, that is not personal?

It's interesting. I almost get it.

784 posted on 07/29/2007 4:43:59 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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