# Is It Reasonable to Ignore the 550-lb. Elephant

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-reasonable-to-ignore-the-550-lb-elephant/515313>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [October 27, 2009, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-reasonable-to-ignore-the-550-lb-elephant/515313 "2009-10-27T16:15:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-reasonable-to-ignore-the-550-lb-elephant/515313/21 "2009-10-29T21:19:34Z")

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> [@stuthehistoryguy](#):
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> Then why does anything that I or anyone else has to say interest you in the slightest?

If you are incapable of presenting your own thoughts and ideas independently of what has or has not been covered on some Message Board, then I might do well to take your advice regarding interest in what you say.

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**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-reasonable-to-ignore-the-550-lb-elephant/515313/22 "2009-10-29T22:53:55Z")

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I am proud to have earned the disinterest of someone who defends pedophiles. You’ve made my day.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-reasonable-to-ignore-the-550-lb-elephant/515313/23 "2009-10-29T23:25:59Z")

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This has passed beyond discussion and we’re now firmly in bickering territory, which is not useful.

As such, I am closing this thread. If one or more of you has a problem with one or more of you, further action needs to go to the Pit.

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-reasonable-to-ignore-the-550-lb-elephant/515313/24 "2009-10-29T23:34:52Z")

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> [@stuthehistoryguy](#):
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> I am proud to have earned the disinterest of someone who defends pedophiles. You’ve made my day.

**stuthehistoryguy** : Personal insults are out of place in this forum. Cool it. NOW.

In response to your OP for this thread, however, I will call this to **tomndebb** ’s attention for him to respond. I’m only looking at it superficially, but it certainly seems to me that there is a difference between arguing for/against some ethics point of view, and dragging personal insults into it. One can consider a particular ethical argument to be abhorrent; calling for poster who endorse that ethic to be “locked away” is over the line.

OOOPs, sorry, I posted this sort of simultaneous with **TubaDiva** closing the thread.

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