"Defend to the death" in that pseudo-Voltaire quote is actually ambiguous. It's never been quite clear whose death is envisaged.

For some reason it seems that some of our posters may choose to consider such things as unclear or to go out of their way to discuss anything other than the very clear implications in this quotation.

One thing is sure - that should any poster be foolish enough to make a stand to try and ensure that all views expressed on our forum receive equal treatment and remain as worded - this attempt will not receive very much support...............But they can surely rely on on many personal judgements being posted about them.

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What Mick had to say didn't strike me as a personal attack, simply one man's opinion. An opinion that happen to agree with.
To me, a personal attack is when someone uses filthy language and/or calls someone nasty names.

The particular personal judgement made in that post may not have contained what you may judge to be 'filty language' or 'nasty names' but there are plenty of other examples from that poster that do. But is any personal judgement (good or bad) made in public about another named poster really what our discussion forum is for?

Kendall I will look forward to reading your public condemnation of the next personal attack (as now defined by you) that I will inevitably receive. Especially when it comes from one of the usual suspects who appear to be unable to make any post that does not contain personal judgements, 'filthy language' and 'nasty names'.

Is it really not possible to JUST discuss the issue on our forum anymore?