“The point is that it was a vile and stupid manner and opinion.”
“When I see the assertion that minors are somehow subhuman, I will react.”
Well, Ilsa; those are your statements and IMO they represent a fair assessment of your position. But, whether they do or don’t, they are both blatant mischaracterizations of the truth, and you know it. That is about as kind as I can put this.
You cannot present any post I ever made that would support those statements; the closest you can come would be to argue that my opinion was “vile and stupid” - in your opinion. Nothing was “vile and stupid” in my manner.
You can produce nothing that indicates I ever considered minors to be subhuman. Nothing. Only that they don’t have all the rights of an adult.
No, for all your sophistry, you cannot support your contention and it matters little what support you garner for this “pitting.”
And seriously, without in any way supporting County whatsoever, Ilsa you can come on fairly strongly at times, from your smiley volcano to some quite emotional posting. I do understand that you have very strong feelings about this, but I think we get your point re: County and while you have gathered quite a lot of support for that opinion in this thread, their is a risk it will backfire.
Just a friendly piece of advise: Wait ten minutes whenever you feel the urge to post, and think it through.
I, also, am gonna side with county here. His statement in the school uniforms thread was barely objectionable, and contained a valid if badly phrased point.
He didn’t say that minors were somehow sub-human. I don’t know if that’s a strawman or just an over-reaction on Ilsa_Lund’s part.
Ahem. Ilsa, you had a good head of steam up until this point. county has shown himself to be a moron, and is plenty worthy of ridicule. jackelope has not. If you attack everyone that believes that county is not a moron worthy of a pitting, you’ll be acting like a jerk, at least IMHO. Please confine the personal attacks to the deserving. It would be a shame to lose you again.
I would appreciate it if discussion would steer clear of my suspension and banning and eventual reinstatement. That can only go downhill fast, and no matter how badly you would like that, it would not be sporting.
That is indefensible and abject utter bullshit. I reacted quite strongly, yes. I felt that it was not out of line, given what was said. Rather than hijack that thread, I started this one.
No, Ilsa, your attack started before that post. Additionally, you failed to reference the fact that my post concerning how “that is how it should be” was subsequently clarified, with an apology from me for not being specific enough. Your position cannot be supported and you continue to mischaracterize what actually was said, when it was said and how it was said.
quoth the third-rate fairweather piss-weak fawning lickspittle blowhard.
You’ve got ya fountain o’ rolleyes and yer MPSIMS biscuit games - so you think you can make yourself a Big Dog by spotting an arguable post by a Doper who’s made the odd foolish post and kicking the crap out of him for sport?
Get some weight before you try to throw it around.
If you were truly an evolutionary ecologist you would know damn well that there is no “forward” or “backward” in regards to evolution. Regardless of what you may have heard on Star Trek, humans are not evolving into a a “higher” form. We, like all life, are simply evolving to fit the environment. It is quite possible that our species will grow less intelligent over time if it turns out that our large brains consume more energy than is warranted by the benefits that come with increased intelligence.
The myth that evolution has some kind of predictable direction is as annoying to me as the “if we evolved from monkeys why are there still monkeys?” thing.