[Dan] In the past, when Arlo and Platt engaged in endless bickering with name-calling, insults, and just plain ignorance, I didn't even bother reading their posts.
[Arlo] For the record, there was more to this than a simple tit-for-tat exchange of "name-calling". Platt used evasion at every turn, outright lied about not only what I was saying but what I had said, and pretended today that what he said yesterday didn't exist. I called Platt out specifically because that type of horrible rhetoric should NOT be left unchallenged in a metaphysical/philosophy group. This is not an AOL chat room where ridiculous statements should be left unchallenged. But you're right, our exchanges had no value except that to me his comments stand, in the archives, challenged and called out. Should I have exercised more patience? Maybe. I am not perfect. But years and years of dealing with talk-radio tactics and bombast had left me with a very short fuse. Should I have just put him on ignore? Maybe. I did for a while, as I do now with quite a few people. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
