I love discussing ideas and I enjoy reading
or listening to the ideas of others (that is why I am still on
TT) -- but I hate debate. If there doesn't appear to be
any chance of resolve, I would rather disengage than ride a disagreement
into the gutter.
Thanks for your response Bill,
But how do you know there will never be any
chance of resolve if you don't follow it through?
BT: Perhaps over the years I have developed a "sense" for those who
are willing to budge and those who only want to argue. And maybe I have
missed some opportunities for resolution along the way, but I know I have
more often spared my opponent the frustration of having to debate a
knucklehead like me :>) -- and perhaps in the act I have
preserved for the next time a certain degree of credibility.
<SNIP> What is so threatening about talking
things through??
I don't really get the impression that that is what we are doing --
talking things through. I think more often things tend to deteriorate
until neither of us is likely to change.
Just wondering.... judyt
