Why do so many not use the simple option re mudslinging namely;

If you get mud slung your way, ignore it, pretend it didn't happen.

Why bother responding (I think, for once 'reacting' is the right word), why bother reacting to every bit of mud slung?

   That may or may not mean that mud-slinging would eventually cease. Why allow yourself to get caught up in it? i don't like being ignored and I may be in the majority about that. I just think mud-slingers feed off reactions.

And interestingly, from a psychological point of view, the recipient of 'mud' is probably not the REAL target anyway, (See Laura Huxley's book You are Not the Target.



    Ivor

BTW. If we counter each letter we type as a separate post, might we hit the target?