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I see. Well let's start at the beginning. I am not a professional scholar. It is an informal forum. And you seem to have only come here to pick fights with intellectual inferiors which seems to strike me as a tad unfair. I mean I only started fighting with people here after attempting to make friends with them. You came out of the gate swinging against people whom we all know are easy targets.
I brought up Goodacre because I thought it was applicable and because there is a part of me that has always felt uncomfortable with bullying. I am not sure that standing up to bullies is an animal behavior. I have done my share of Pete-bashing. But whenever I have attacked someone it is after attempting - however unsuccessfully to make them see the light of reason. Your attack seems only motivated to humiliate them. I can't watch a pitbull maul a pack of rats without feeling compassion for the rats. That's human, all too human behavior. |
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Maybe I think you are my intellectual equal. Maybe our arguments are more like those of a married couple or a mother and son relationship because of our familiarity. Nietzsche went mad watching a man whip a sick horse. There are distinctions to be made here. I may not like or agree with this rogues gallery but I wouldn't want to watch them have their brains bashed in. For better or worse, they're sort of like family. Yuck.
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