--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > When someone gets their buttons so pushed by someone > challenging an *idea* that they believe is true, pushed > enough to react as if someone has attacked *them* > personally, that person IMO can't tell the difference > between his or her ideas and who he or she *is*. And > that's fairly sad in my estimation.
It's also a complete fantasy, not something that actually happens in the real world. It's a mantra that Barry has adopted to give him a basis for dumping on people who a provide vigorous defense for ideas he's disparaged. His attacks on other people's ideas are usually so lame that when they're defended, he doesn't have any substantive response--hence the need for an all-purpose putdown to substitute for such a response.
