Yes, BEE, but I am merely making a point by answering an unscrupulous and unfair stretching of a previous statement I made with a similarly unscrupulous and unfair stetching of Mrrzy's statement in response to it....

Tit for tat. Satire.

I find a certain dark humor in that.

You see, it is always possible to totally fuck with a reasonable argument by stretching the interpretation of it to an absolutely unreasonable position. Mrrzy did that to my argument when I said that any opinion deserves respect, so it seems only just that I return the favor by doing the same back to him.

To draw an analogy between opinions embodying "faith" (a tremendously broad general subject) and opinions that are bigotted, racist, and sexist is such an unscrupulous and manipulative stretch of hyperbole, that it amazes me that someone could have the gall to even do it, at least not without blushing while he did so... ;-)

What I clearly meant was this: Any opinion that is expressed in a respectful manner deserves to be responded to in a respectvul manner.

Opinions that are racist, sexist, and bigotted are, by definition...NOT respectful. Therefore we do not respect them. DUH!!! If I have an opinion, however, that people have souls (for example), or that we reincarnate (for another example), there is no disprespect intended or given to anyone when I express such opinions.

Mrrzy's response therefore was inappropriate, misleading, and unjustified. It showed no respect for what I had said. No desire to really listen in a fair fashion. It showed only a desire to score a debating point (in an unscrupulous manner). Therefore I did not respect it in return....as a demonstration of what had just been done to me.

Do you get that? If not, well I guess we'll probably both forget it in a week or two... Hopefully.

I wish I could forget how to log in to this place. Seriously.