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Old 03-02-2009, 04:42 PM   #74
DESS
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Originally Posted by photon View Post
I have been following, and the response is directly related to your style and content. There are good ways and bad ways to communicate a point, you are choosing a bad way.
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Originally Posted by Madman View Post
So you aren't classifying everyone as lemmings - only <50%.

Phew, much better.
Less than 50% could be 1%.

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Originally Posted by photon View Post
Even that doesn't make sense.. a lemming implies that they just have an opinion because everyone else has it, but most people actually post why they have their opinion and why they disagree, which makes them anything but a lemming.

Viewing everyone who disagrees with you as lemmings is the kind of view that leads to trollish behaviour (intended or not).
And calling somebody a troll is just a way of dismissing their argument and undermining their credibility. The terms are very tit for tat IMO, but I'm the only one being called out. Regardless, I did say I'd stop calling people lemmings.

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There hasn't been a real problem that you've been trying to solve yet.

Parasite communities? Hardly. They come into Calgary to spend their hard earned money and shop. They come into Calgary to work the jobs that we have (which wouldn't be based in Calgary if these people weren't available). There is nothing parasitic about it.
My position is they are parasitic. Parasites usually harm the host. I believe the road system in Calgary was not designed to allow for these satellite communities and they have become, in essense, parasites with respect to the smooth functioning of our rush hours. It's an observation, not an insult and to me it's a real problem that forces me to leave earlier for work and get home later. It's costing me and thousands of other just like me a lot of personal time.

Last edited by DESS; 03-02-2009 at 04:44 PM. Reason: typo
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