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Well, we do have a few who seem to make the occasional foray into the realm of the personal attack, alter-egos, sock puppets and all -- those kind of things can and do hurt good folks, don't need a fork nor a spatula when the meat is falling off the bone...



but there is a standard for identifying a personal attack, and I haven't seen any on the forum in a while.

Disagreement is NOT a personal attack, though it may sometimes attack the idea in discussion.

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NOT a personal attack: "I think that's a dumb idea"

Personal Attack: "You are a dumb person for having that idea"



Many of us on the forum are old opinionated goats. We say what we have to say in no uncertain terms, and we don't all agree on everything. (But we know where the others stand)

I think that by the time we've gotten to age 60 we should have a mature perspective on life's injustices, and the strong emotional responses should be reserved for when you find out your kid has leukemia or you dad had a massive coronary. The emotional response for being disagreed with should be wayyyy down the list.

And for many, by age 60, it ain't even on the list at all anymore. I consider disagreement to be normal among people who are all thinking. And I don't want to hang with people who aren't thinking.

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