[quote author="childplease" date=1258617817][quote author="Nude" date=1258616733]
You have a hitlist, I have an ignore list. Welcome to it.</blockquote>
You used the ignore button on me eh? That hurts feelings...I'm sorry. But for someone who claims (above on this thread) to have been raised to be open-minded, you're pretty opinionated and judgemental of those that differ from you from the posts of yours that I've read.</blockquote>
I said I was raised to respect people regardless of differences over which they had no control. That does not mean people get a free pass because they think a certain way or pray to a specific deity or belong to a certain group. I hold people accountable for what they say and do, but I'm not biased about it. I hold doors for people, not just women. I think dragging someone to death behind a truck is a capital crime, it doesn't matter why it was done. And on this board, I treat people by the only standards available on the internet: consistency and intellectual honesty. If you admit to being a liar, <em>and then continue to lie anyway</em> I am going to treat you as a liar. If you post solid opinion based on facts, figures, and provide links to such, I'm going to treat your opinion with respect even if I disagree with it. If I seem opinionated it is because I have an opinion and I defend it when challenged, both for my edification and anyone reading it but also so that I may be corrected if I'm wrong. If I seem judgmental, it's because I call it as I see it and I see no reason to claim obvious BS is chocolate milk when it's clearly BS. I try to avoid personal attacks, but there comes a point where the argument is no longer about an idea but about the person pushing the idea and their motives for doing so. In general, I ridicule the argument or the idea, not the person making it.
If you have some sort of vendetta against me based on some perceived insult, get over it. I never singled you out, it wasn't personal, I don't have enough time on this planet to care whether your feelings get hurt or not, and if you can't handle your opinion being attacked you should examine why rather than point a finger at me and say I am mean.