Posted by Larry Hoover on August 5, 2003, at 23:34:38
In reply to Re: Hey Doc Bob, remember me... a few ??'s..., posted by paxvox on August 5, 2003, at 15:56:41
> I'm sorry, did I miss something? I find YOUR comments to be extremely offensive toward me personally.
I pointed to hard questions arising from your stated philosophies. I meant no offense.
>I was not "speaking to you" but initially to Nikki. I cleared up my misunderstanding of her position, and apologized if I had offended her in any way. My other comments were essentially MY OPINION, to which your response so ironically stomps all over.
I challenged you on the implications of your opinions, not your opinions per se. I'm sorry if that came across as "stomping all over". You see, I find that ironic, in that you describe yourself as more or less "stomping all over" other people....a behaviour worthy of challenge, IMHO.
> You suggest, with some self-perceived "authority" I might add, that I am some sort of malcontent toublemaker.
I did nothing of the sort.
>You personally have attacked me here, and called me egotistical.
No, I did not.
>Is that not uncivil?
It would be, if I had done so.
>Your retort of my post is a dichotomized mixture of insult and reprobation clearly uncalled for.
Seemed to flow quite naturally from your own comments, and limit itself solely to those natural extrapolations, if you seek my opinion on that.
No insults. Tough questions, explicit and implied. But I provided no conclusions or judgments about you.
>What gives YOU the right to slam me for making a subjective statement of belief?
If you feel slammed, I would ask you if I may perhaps have hit a tender subject or two?
>I don't have the right to an opinion?
Certainly. But do I not have a right to express mine, in direct, point by point, contrast to yours?
>Your statements that people need to be "protected" from me
That was conditional on the validity of your own self-descriptors. If what you said about yourself was true (I don't know that), then protecting others from you would be a reasonable concern.
>and that I have "stooped" to "blaming the victims" are so anathematizing to me.
But you did suggest that people bring on the flames you provide. That's just not the case. Your own internal justifications do that. I do think the defense of one's own inappropriate actions based on descriptions of another's "babbling on" is "blaming the victim".
>Where is YOUR block for uncivility?
We shall see. I'm glad it's not up to you (or Wendy) to decide that. You both have misunderstood many of my statements.
>Please Dr. Bob, don't I have any rights here?
The same as everyone else.
Lar
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