Ron, Rick would have his say in a discussion, and he'd stick to his convictions, but he'd stay out of pissing contests. If he thought someone was simply picking a fight, he'd walk away. I'd tell him it bugged me, because I often would have stayed and argued, but it wasn't something he cared about, especially not the nit-picky stuff that was usually at the heart of it. Please, if you want to find the truth, go back and read what he wrote and look for arguments in which he took part.

I think people come here to argue too, and that's fine. It's like the 'liar's" club at the local country store, and if everyone's a consenting adult, there's no problem. I dislike it when someone starts an argument in what was a discussion, a sharing of opinions and information. There's room here for debate, but Not EVERYTHING should be a debate! It sure is easy to see how things turn into an argument though.

Conflict is a natural part of human life, but it isn't the only part. A person can choose when they want to take a stand and when they'd rather do something else that's more important to them. Sometimes I argue and sometimes I don't. It can be very hard to find friends or common ground when you're examining someone else's words for a weakness or anything you can object to. That seems to me to be what a lot of the BS threads are these days.

Still, although I don't like arguing as much as some, the majority of the people doing the arguing seem civil most of the time.