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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe Mookie, I am not at all contending that people should not disagree with one another. I think arguing and disagreements are what makes the forum what it is. I am just noting that I think some people take it personally when you disagree with them and feel as though their rail soverignty is being challenged. Gabe [/quote] Let me throw my two cents in, in context with the above and the comment you made in your initial post regarding what you are accustomed to seeing in your everyday life, I think you've hit one of the nails on the head without realizing it. In everyday life, with those of opposed opinion at arms length, one tends to be more warry of what they say, and how they say it, than they do hidden behind the comfort of a VGA screen and keyboard. There are a host of situational factors that play off of this, ...ranging from what you might choose NOT to say out of politeness to someone you have to live next door to--all the way to the concern you might have for a guy busting you one in the kisser if you smarted off back to him in person.......And,.... as they say, --"the million shades of gray in between" (*unfurling the trout line*) [:D] In fact, the impression I've formed of defensive antagonists on the internet is that they probably get few opportunities to be "right" in the real world, often in the shadows of bosses who are never wrong, and/or domineering wives and in consequence lead shallow, unrewarding lives... So, it only stands to reason that such types would be hyperdefensive of the only remaining opportunity available to them to "impress" someone...[;)]
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