--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > As for the "stay out of a fight" argument > proposed by Sparaig and Peter Klutz, one > is tempted to ask WHY, if they find the > things that people say here to be "first > strikes" against them, they have chosen > to hang out on a forum that -- according > to its charter -- is announced as a place > where such strikes against assumption and > rigid belief are de rigeur?
Attacks are *not* de rigeur here. We tolerate the attacks because there are plenty of other things going on that we enjoy reading and discussing, obviously. > > To paraphrase Sparaig, it would appear to > me that they're saying that there was no > way to avoid the fights, when they them- > selves made the choice to hang out in a > biker bar. >
