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Originally Posted by luxinterior
see, i have no problem with disagreements, and i have them often, and i enjoy being exposed to new points of view, but if your idea of an "argument" is to address people in this way, i want no part in it, because i'd have to start calling you names in return. not that i have a problem dishing out the crap in this board (i obviously don't), but i tend to treat people i "know" (more or less, it turns out) and a bit different than that: i like to give them some measure of respect and consideration by default.
take cheeto-- he and i disagree often in matters of taste, yet i like and respect him, and while i can counter his agruments, i have never called him a stupid, dumbass, or given him girl names (porkie calls him roberta, but that's a different story). then there's schizophrenicroom, whom i adore, and she happens to like bright eyes-- a band i positively detest-- she and i often laugh about this. i probably dont agree with 50% or more of what synthetically says on this board, but he and i have this ongoing conversation whereby i see him and threat him as a person rather than some anonymous entity that gives me an excuse to rant. i could go on & on but i don't want to start namechecking people.
i would have been happy to discuss why i am not interested in the bourne movie (i've seen 2 already, i don't need dessert), but where i refuse to "argue" is when people take this shit personally. and while i don't mind dishing out insults to anonymous strangers on the internet, there are people i treat differently. unless of course they exhaust my patience, which has been known to happen
so the "don't provoke me" was directed at your unpleasant way of addressing me rather than the ideas you had so skillfully buried there. notice that i haven't called you names so far, and i'm already past the point of "don't provoke me", because you obviously have done that, but rather than trash you in return for your kind words i'm going to leave you here dishing out insults at the atmosphere, or whoever choses to engage you. i'll just say it's been quite a disappointment. have a nice fucking day.
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First, notice that I never actually said, "You are a dumbass, you are a retard," etc; I took extra
special care not to do that. Rather, what I was attempting to get across, was that your baseless opinions were those more commonly held by a dumbass, retard, and so on, which I regard as being out of character for you. That is why it disappoints me to hear you say things that I think are ignorant. In this case, I think you're being ignorant by sharing opinions on books and movies that you've never read or seen before. If I wanted to bring name-calling into this argument, I could have chosen worse things to say. But I'm not going to kiss your ass either and apologize for saying that you're acting retarded, because I still think you really were being retarded. I absolutely cannot stand to see you, or anyone else, acting that self-righteous. It's disgusting.