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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
At risk of piling on, he's not wrong. There are just a lot of information and context gaps in your arguments and I honestly think you need to check out, take another look through the information available, and come back with at least your own side filled out.
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Numerous people have criticized my position, you're right he's correct. He doesn't think anyone has actually sided with my position. I'm assuming he's being honest about how he feels, but I don't think that by any means makes him "right" as you state. Many of the people the people who remain silent do so because we're on the same "team"? I'm confused as to what he means by team, I'm just one person sharing his views and opinions, I don't feel as though I'm picking sides at all. I wonder how he considers me to be on a team if no one agrees with me? So on that one, unless he has an inbox full of pm's from posters supporting what he's saying, I'd have a hard time saying he's right as opposed to just giving his opinion. But by all means you're free to make your conclusion based on hypotheticals, doesn't make you right either though.
As for information and context gaps, I wonder what your take is on my posts from earlier today when I brought up the fact that the Humpty's owner's letter complaining about the extra costs to his business made no mention of how much his business was making. Only to have it shrugged off as useless information since apparently all that matters is the fact that it is costing him money. Yeah I guess that information would be useless, unless of course you're trying to put the other info he's providing into a context to determine exactly how badly it will affect his business.
As far as checking out, I appreciate you giving your opinion but I'm good man, I'll continue to discuss and share my views. If you have any questions about details of my side, why not ask me to clarify? Or at least clarify specifically what you feel I don't have filled out.
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You went on about this fictional PST situation earlier, only to balk when I came up with an alternate scenario that actually had more precedent involved and your response was "Well we don't know it's going to be like that." It's hard to have a discussion with someone that is asking for a lot more rope than he's willing to give.
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Just so I understand this correctly, you are opposed to me using a hypothetical situation as an example, yet feel I have to accept any hypotheticals you add to my hypothetical example? PST legislation from another province does not set a precedence for how any potential PST would have to be administered in Alberta. So based on your comment about the difficulties associated with having a discussion with someone that is asking for a lot more rope than they are willing to give, I'd suggest I'm not the reason for any difficulties experienced in discussions between yourself and I.
I have no issue responding to yours or any other posters' posts that are trying to discredit or attack my views. But in the interest of keeping the thread on track, when it comes to these types of posts that seem to have no relation to the topic, whether they are direct or of the passive aggressive variety why don't you guys just send the personal attacks or "mentoring" advice by pm? Up to you guys, but even when they aren't directed at me, I feel the level of disrespect shown to posters by some on this board for simply disagreeing with them brings down the overall quality of this board and simply derails any meaningful discussion.