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Originally Posted by Jay Random
It always amazes and saddens me when people take ‘This person disagrees with me’ and ‘This person is stupid’ as equivalent statements.
It seems to me that Dino is quite intelligent, but over-optimistic. He can usually base his opinions on facts and evidence and show his work, so he's not dumb; just temperamentally biased.
Paulie is also intelligent, but cynical, and while he can argue rationally, sometimes he engages the keyboard without putting the brain in gear. I find that less easy to put up with.
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Is there a big chasm between “this person is stupid” and “he engages the keyboard without putting the brain in gear” or did you think that adding more words would make it sound more eloquent and less obnoxious?
I’m not even going to touch your odd definition of “temperamental bias” because that’s not what that means but I think it’s fun you think it works in that context.
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Originally Posted by Sandman
People have to learn that you can disagree with someone on a message board without being combative, demeaning, or condescending.
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And once they learn that, they should deploy combative, demeaning, and condescending efforts as often as possible in the most debilitating fashion they can muster.