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anyone Not when it's to promote Hitler and his thugs' goals. to itself Your intentions were to promote an evil...
jmfbahciv
What "touchie-feelie" interactions would those be?
I never said anything about anything being "touchie-feelie"...or that anyone has to agree with anyone else...or even be nice...or even be polite...
You are inventing arguments that were not made...you are complaining to me about a post that I simply did not actually write...
The point was fully expressed clearly in the quote from Orwell:
"At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is buttumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is 'not done' to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals"
George Orwell, the introduction to "Animal Farm"
Hence, the point was, in fact, exactly IN SUPPORT of "disagreement" because it was asking for a fair hearing for "unorthodox" points of view to be expressed freely, without silencing...which is sure to cause MORE disagreement, not less...but, as you rightly point out, disagreement itself is not a problem and can be a Good Thing...
Nice logic...
You express that I should be silent on this issue because you disagree with me...
On the exact point that disagreement is a good thing and, therefore, should not be silenced...
Maturity, I feel, is a slightly irrelevent point at this juncture...care to elaborate on the rationale behind this comment? I'd be most interested to hear...
jmfbahciv Oh, is that what you think I'm saying? Oh, no wonder you got slightly "upset"... No, sorry...exactly the...
Beth :)