darth_ender said:

C3PS, I admitted I would be long-winded beforehand, and I also admitted that I would not change my mind. Humorous you would call it a close-minded debate, as I've yet to see you change your mind in any of your arguments.

Argue better and I might. ;)

I guess you didn't get the point that I was talking about both sides here?

I just don't have time to read and refute longwinded versions of arguments I have heard many times before, there is really no point in it.

This was meant to be a debate thread (see the title), and I doubt you or your colleagues are being any more open-minded to the opposite point of view.

I actually do hold a good deal of open-mindedness in any discussion I take part in. We are really treading on the most basic of ground in this debate, this stuff is barely skimming the surface of the issue, and yet we can knock out thousands of words trying to make our point. As it is, we are mostly just argument morality. You with a strong faith in a higher being at the core of your points, and me without certainty in anything but the necessity to be decent to our fellow man.

You're always quite welcome to not respond if you feel you've read them too many times before. I've read your point of view plenty as well, whether typed by your own fingers or someone who thinks just like you. But if you don't have the nerve to try to respond to what appears to be a minority opinion here, then go exercise your First Amendment rights somewhere else instead of simply making a mockery of your debating opponent.

I keep forgetting you are a moderator now. Sorry for breaking your rules.

Not sure how you think I made a mockery of my debating opponent? Wasn't my intention.