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<p>It wasn’t really heated and I wasn’t really haughty. With all due respect, maybe you’re, er, easily threatened? </p>
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<p>Now that’s just silly (oops, absolute declaration, there). There’s nothing about an absolute declaration that’s bad. Things believed absolutely should be asserted that way. :/</p>
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<p>I assure you that my sole motive is to learn and that I believe that straightforward “heated” debate is the way to that. Ideas only develop when they go through a trial by fire. Otherwise they just hang around. I agree that there is a way to do this respectfully, but I disagree that a combative approach to the discussion of ideas is a bad one in any way. </p>
<p>In the end, what matters is that no one starts getting angry or resentful because of something so trivial as someone else’s attitude toward their ideas. As long as ad hominens are avoided and attention is focused on the content of each of our arguments, then there really is no way this thread can’t end productively at this point. :/</p>