[don-o]

Calling people “troll” fifty times is hardly an example of avoiding resentments, by not giving resentments. That is constant and unrelenting and YOU did it.

I will own that. What is your suggestion for a better response when folks holding a point of view are continuously called "criminal sympathizers"? How about THAT as a guaranteed generator of resentment?

Do you know what internet trolling actually is? A big piece of it is misrepresenting the thoughts and words of those with whom one disagrees. It truly poisons the well.

Could I have taken a different approach than I did?

Probably.

Yes. I will own my part of "dirtying up the street".

What's next?

[truth_seeker]

“What’s next?”

Principles before personalities.

Tenth step.

We don’t behave better only in a quid pro quo, e.g. only if the other does likewise.

We simply do it because it is right.