In fact, I never go after a poster until they first make a personal attack on me. Then the gloves are off. Some, like you apparently, have absolutely no interest in the thread itself, but simply want to start a fight. That seems to be the limit of your capacity.
Your incompetence caused you to be in error. Then when I point out that error to you, you have the gall to turn it on me. You're compounding your error. But hey, that's your problem -- not mine. Deal with it. Or don't. It makes no difference to me.
You are either just a young kid or you do need help. Think for a minute just how important that was. The argument, not the author was at issue. I mistakenly thought the author was the poster. So what? He corrected me, but the arguments did not change because Keyes wrote it rather than the poster. It certainly didn't do much for my opinion of Keyes, but that's another issue.
Posters such as you are a dime a dozen. I see them on threads where their response to a well thought out post was to criticize the failure to use spell check, or some other meaningless error having nothing at all to do with the thread.
I'll try again. Do you have anything of substance on the issues we have been discussing?
Some, like you apparently, have absolutely no interest in the thread itself, but simply want to start a fight. That seems to be the limit of your capacity.
Highlighting your errors and watching how you deal with it is important. You have chosen poorly. With other, fundamentally honest posters on this thread I have discussed the issue of inalienable right to life, liberty and happiness. For example, post 99 which sates:
"The inalienable right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness is freedom from the initiation of force, fraud and coercion. Prohibition of initiation of force, fraud and coercion respects and protects the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." -- Zon
When you act as you have, you've done anything but earn respect that is deserving of debate. I will not gloss over your error and compounding of it and just move on along to debate you on the issue of this thread. You simply have not earned the respect. Actually, just the opposite -- you have earned disrespect.
You are either just a young kid or you do need help.
I'm not a kid. I'm doing just fine holding your feet to the fire by not letting you get away with implying -- in what appears to be an insults -- how much more intellectually adept you are compared to many Freepers, when in fact, in the span of just a few posts you've proven the opposite.
Think for a minute just how important that was. The argument, not the author was at issue. I mistakenly thought the author was the poster. So what? He corrected me, but the arguments did not change because Keyes wrote it rather than the poster. It certainly didn't do much for my opinion of Keyes, but that's another issue.
I see you don't think having your credibility at stake is important. I see you don't think earning the respect to be deemed worthy of debate is important to you. You think I should just gloss over your errors? Why should I care about you when you clearly don't care about your own integrity?
Posters such as you are a dime a dozen. I see them on threads where their response to a well thought out post was to criticize the failure to use spell check, or some other meaningless error having nothing at all to do with the thread.
That's an obfuscating, non sequitur straw man.
I'll try again. Do you have anything of substance on the issues we have been discussing?
Again, why should I respect you when you don't have the integrity to respect yourself?