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    Quote Originally Posted by Admiral Ackbar View Post
    You are trying to hard. Nothing anyone on here says is going to shut me or any other adult down from discussing what we want. That only happens to the weak minded. I am not interested in parsing language and if the right language is not used some how considering it "bad faith" posting
    Using "some" instead of "all", "sometimes" or "often" instead of "always", etc., isn't parsing anything or being shut down; it's being accurate in your writing and - more importantly - in your thinking.
    Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard

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    I love the ones who generalize from a single instance to the whole.


    Still, there's value in generalizing tendencies. Liberals see the world one way, conservatives another doesn't mean all but expresses tendencies. Objections to that should be great places to open discussion.
    Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trish View Post
    I thought I'd start with baby steps. Imploring civility hasn't worked in the past so I'm asking if we can try another approach. hahahahaha
    Fair enough. It never ceases to amaze me when obviously intelligent adults cannot disagree without grade school level insults and it happens too often on this board.

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