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Crandell,In the creosote post, you said, "But the personal and directed comments have no place here, for the record, and I won't let them pass." Sometimes comments become personal and directed because one needs to respond to something that one specific person has said.  Even if it is done with a little pointed sarcasm, I don't see that kind of personal response as a personal or ad hominem attack.I agree that debates can sometimes shift from being fueled by the object of the debate to be motivated by the desire to keep the debate going.  It then becomes a contest to achieve the longest running debate.  But these things are self-correcting, so they run their course and the conversation changes.  I don't understand the worry that somehow a thread will spin out of control and become a self-perpetuating macabre spectacle.      If the worry is that a thread is likely to turn into a macabre spectacle, why not give the thread the benefit of the doubt, by waiting to see if it does turn into a macabre spectacle before locking it?  I sure did not see anything macabre about the creosote thread as far as it went.  Eolafan mentioned that a person is being politically correct by being intransigent about their opinion.  Not only do people have a right to have opinions, but they also have a right to be intransigent.   Political correctness is a collective demand that all persons accept certain beliefs about a certain specific issues.  By definition, one person being intransigent is not political correctness.  However, the intolerance of one person's intransigence is a perfect example of political correctness.  This is because political correctness has also come to include intolerance of having strong opinions, regardless of what they are about.  Having strong opinions is seen as a mark of judgmentalism, anther P.C. taboo.  It is also very P.C. to believe that if an argument is occurring, the problem is the argument itself rather than the substance of the argument and the merit of the positions that comprise it.  Therefore political correctness punishes all participants of an argument equally, regardless of their positions, by forcing an end to the argument.
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