[Principled]

that is, of course, a question that has only one sensible answer... making it not a question at all. Would you be kind enough to rephrase?

[Washington_minuteman]

I'm sitting here, asking myself why I worded the question the way I did.

You see, going back to the post that started this, I believe you should have worded it differently, making your meaning clearer, so that I could have written an affirming comment about the idea itself, without the necessity of having to ferret out what you really meant by the post. That is what I meant by more "productive" dialouge.

So, since we agree that I should have either asked you what you meant, or just ignored the post altogether, would you agree with me that your first post to this thread did not clearly represent what you were thinking about at the time?

I believe that there is a 50-50 blame relationship between improper assumptions made, and the incomplete conveyence of meaning. Call it contributory negligence. I accpet my 50%, and I wonder if you will accept yours, or do you reject this thesis?