The code of courtesy generally held by folks around the world seems to indicate that guests should be honored and treated with every respect -- local customs vary, of course -- usually up to the point where they do not return the honor and respect.

The Cat is mostly made up of people wishing to exchange ideas and communicate openly, and is usually a safe place for them to do so. The very few who violate that standard of conduct by making it unsafe to communicate, with ad hominem attacks and derogation, snide generalizations that destroy communication rather than support it, and other devices born of fear and anger, generally place themselves outside the pale of group protection or codes of conduct by their own actions.

When that happens they either tend to get ignored or they get unfortunately called out in a firefight. Dropping communication works better.

But I have never seen either remedy applied to a Guest in this forum who was honestly trying to express a point of view in exchange with others. It may have happened on rare occasions but it certainly is not a practice here.

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