xhonzi said:
My only question is this: Why is this so personal to you, twooffour? You seem to be very upset about. I've read your other posts around the forum and you seem to mostly be a pretty sensible guy. Why does this subject (Raising my kids in a PT free environment) elicit such angst from you?
For the record, if I hadn't been reading and enjoying a lot of whatelse you'd have to say, your conduct in this thread would cause me to put you on ignore.
It's not personal to me, doesn't cause anything resembling "angst", and doesn't "upset" me outside the confines of this forum - getting condescending and angry is just my usual, natural reaction to reading something stupid, like display of considerable fanboyism, bigotry, bias, circular logic, or, indeed, treating something like a bunch of SF entertainment films way too seriously.
Whether you realize it or not, you're just playing the usual "why are you so angry?" card that is so often used as an excuse to dismiss everything a discussion opponent has to say (very often used by Christians against atheists - one gets a bit too excited in an argument, and the Xtian rubs his hands and posts something like "wow, so much hate and anger, did something happen to you? (maybe you need Jesus in your life!); variations include using the amount of research or post length by the opponent as proof that the opponent is "way too obsessed lol" and a lame, transparent excuse for an attempt to replace debat with ridicule), and no, sorry, I'm not interested in that.
Hey, how about I ask you why you take Star Wars so seriously, you put so much effort in your kids forming a certain opinion of it the first time they're ever exposed to anything associated with it? Why does it matter so much what they think about "Star Wars"? Does the term "serious business" tell you anything? Mind how in my case, I get "upset" about a nerd topic on a nerd forum, while in your case, you actually put some effort into this IN REAL LIFE, in the upbringing of YOUR KIDS.
Yea, how about you talk about that instead of trying to distract with useless ad hominems, because, you know, that's the topic you started. Did you honestly expect full 100% support and no contentions at all from anybody?
Thanks for "reading and enjoying" some bunch of other posts I've written about something. Had you read any of what I wrote HERE, you now certainly wouldn't be waving around with the "threat" of "ignoring" me right now :D
For those who still don't get it:
The /ignore function is just a tool to make your eyes hurt less if you don't feel like putting up with someone's postings, not a triumphant flag of avenged butthurt to wave around in an obnoxious, demonstrative tone - at no point are you more than a click away from viewing a given post, or unignoring the user altogether, and everyone including the user you're "ignoring" knows that, so believe me when I say that NO ONE CARES WHO'S ON YOUR IGNORE LIST.