There are not many rules for posting here that will get your post deleted, for the most part. The biggest thing is “no personal attacks.” I believe in honest discourse, and once a discussion has devolved to ad hominem attacks, the discussion is over. There can be no dialog once people begin attacking one another, rather than their ideas. It’s one of the things that the Internet is really bad at. Someone begins losing on their idea, and so they attack the person instead.
Periodically, someone will do that to me. It’s one of the reasons why I endeavor to keep my name out of things as much as I can. About twice a year, some leftist who gets his panties in a bunch because I disagreed with him on Twitter will come to this site, then begin attacking me. Nothing shows that the discussion is over and you have lost like engaging in attacking the person rather than their ideas. All that can be done at that point is block the person and move on. Nothing further is to be gained by continuing to engage with them.
That happened just this past week. A guy on Twitter that was the subject of a recent post here saw that post and used it as a springboard to attack me personally because he couldn’t defend his own point on its merits. Dialog at that point is over. There is no point in continuing. Just block him and move on. People like that will say “See? He blocked me, I won!” then they will move on, completely missing any self awareness.
It’s one of the reasons why I moderate comments here. Defend your ideas, attack someone else’s ideas. That’s how we learn and grow as humans. Attack the person, and you have just admitted that your ideas are not worthy of defending.
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