Politics thread excepted, I have tried to be gentlemanly in most if not all of my postings and hope that good will is paid forward even more than the tangible things we've shared. I believe the golden rule still has merit -- but only if we actually try to follow it.
The wide age range that posts on this board is often forgotten, but I hope the more mature of us will continue to set an appropriate example that grownup talk comes first from intelligent, thought-out discussion, not about trash talking. It's especially pointless in the virtual environment where we're protected by anonymity and by distance. I'm confident not one of us would hurl the kinds of insults and threats we do if we were face to face. It's an empty gesture to do so on the board.
It is equally important to know and understand that the discussion of illicit behaviors, even academically, has no purpose on this forum. All it does is draw attention to this board unnecessarily, undermining the reason why this board exists: preservation of Star Wars as we know and love it, which has about as many interpretations as The Bible itself. Whether the Latin Vulgate is your canon or the New Revised Standard Edition (tell me those analogies don't apply), what is behind them both is what should draw us together. Then and only then can we sift out the differences and come to some understanding of our different points of view.