Of course you stand by your point, how often do you see people online not stand by their point. That would be the unusual thing.
It's been observed many times before that when someone online starts describing another persons stance as "either you X or you Y" they're generally involved in a false dichotomy.
So congratulations wpeitri, you're just like almost everyone else on the internet. You have an opinion and nothing will convince you otherwise.
I am often convinced otherwise. Just not in this case.
By the way, your I-am-the-superior-intellect pose would be more convincing with better spelling. Note also that "It's been observed" and "they're generally" is classic weasel wording. [1] If you think the truth lies outside my constructed dichotomy, by all means make it clear what you are claiming the truth is.
You know, I never said anything about 'illegal drug use'. Maybe I chose poor words that would have one think I meant that? But I made several comments elaborating that's not what I meant after having made the initial comment. You made your posts after I made those comments. And I'm telling you now too that's not what I meant -- and I told you that before too -- it's just not what I meant. So there's really no reason to keep going on about this, do we agree?
Maybe take a break and smell the fresh air? I hope all is well with you.
Whether or not it was about illegal drug use, I believe your comment was still inappropriate. That it could be read as implying the recently deceased guy was a junkie made it especially so, but even without that I think it was woefully inconsiderate.
I don't have any need to keep talking about it, and you seem unwilling to come to grips with my actual point, so if you'd like to be done with it, I'm not stopping you.
And if I had responded with an absolute you would have attacked that instead.
It isn't really about me using weasel words or swapping the i/e in your name, it's about you using character assassination in your head to convince yourself I can't possibly have a point.
It's just another variation of the "intelligent discourse" idea that gets bandied about quite often on these sorts of boards.
We have every right to communicate, no one has verbally attacked anyone else, if it really bothers you just skip on by instead of taking the time to make sure we're aware that you're judging everyone involved in the conversation.
It's been observed many times before that when someone online starts describing another persons stance as "either you X or you Y" they're generally involved in a false dichotomy.
So congratulations wpeitri, you're just like almost everyone else on the internet. You have an opinion and nothing will convince you otherwise.
Are you happy about that?