It takes two to Tango, Narses. Whenever I click on "comments" I have a message from you. I would think that were I you and I was feeling under attack, I would just ignore the cruel man attacking me and I would stop hitting him for a response - unless, I was trying to tempt him into a response that would have him banned.
But, my skin is as thick as Roseanne Barr's ass is large. I am Irish and Algonquin and I do the best with what I have. You know me and what I consider to be my bailiwick and my manner of posting. I know some think it rude, abrasive, counterproductive and I acknowledge that. I also acknowledge that other posters are inane, insipid, whiny, obtuse, otiose, anfractuous and, one or two, even sesquipedalic. HOWEVER, I acknowledge that God created each of us individually and I don't go about instructing others that my preferred way of communication ought to be the norm. Good Lord, are we men arguing over literally Salvific issues or are we jaw-boning about how to fold the napkins?
I think of G.K. Chesterton remarking how if men argued loud and long into the night, they did it over important matters. I don't recall that great man tut-tutting over rhetorical probity.
Seriously, I think you ought to reconsider your presence as a Freeper person. I am the same age as Israel and the men I argue with about Doctrine and Theology wouldn't even notice the accidents of the florid rhetoric - except to relish it's presence - and they would attend to the substance of the debate.
In any event, sitetest and patent and others can attest to the fact that I can be tenacious in an arguement but I don't think they would accuse me of intending the harm of another and I think they know I admire their thought, restraint and presentation; but there are others I admire just as much - such as LaBelle sans Merci who can cut a rhetorical rug with anyone.
It is often the case that those the argue the loudest love the best. Maybe I will claim St. Jerome as my role model. Nevertheless, I think you might want to consider NOT sending a post to me and, seriously, I mean this sincerely, you might want to reconsider your presence as a Freeper.
You sound like you might be too sensitive a man to mix it up