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From: Tim Streater on 6 Jan 2010 11:14
On 06/01/2010 16:05, Rowland McDonnell wrote:

[snip]

> <puzzled> I'm certainly rude to people who are rude to me. But I'm not
> aggressive and I don't understand why you're only criticising me instead
> of the parties who provoke me to rudeness.

But they're not rude to you, that's the point. 99% of the time, you
start being rude, and yes, aggressive well short of the point where the
other person's approach could be considered rude/aggressive. WELL SHORT, OK?

This is the salient point you don't appear to appreciate and from which
all other issues stem.

Typically, a discussion becomes robust (note: robust is well short of
aggressive/rude, OK?) and you take their robustness as a personal
attack, which it generally is NOT.

--
Tim

"That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines
imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted"

Bill of Rights 1689
From: D.M. Procida on 6 Jan 2010 11:45
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote:

> But it's back to that: why complain about my responses to people being
> rude to me when you don't complain about the people who started the
> rudeness in the first place?

I think that they are ignorant, immature, and practically boiling over
with self-justification.

It's a combination that makes cruelty and viciousness almost inevitable.
It's humanity's ape coming out, except I think that's probably unfair on
apes.

Daniele
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