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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 9671608" data-attributes="member: 6796468">After our previous arguments and the way they've gone down, where you often provide no argument or position -except- to try and argue that I and others are wrong, it truly feels like it's an almost automatic response.It took me four posts of asking you to actually take a position of your own, all the while pulling one line out of my posts to discuss and argue, before you were willing to write a post about what you believe is actually going on.I've never had to do that with Dave2008. He makes a post containing his opinion and entertains disagreements with it, or disagrees with other people's points, sure. But it never comes across as nay saying because he's got a position that I can read and go "Oh. Yeah. That makes sense." and then build a synthesis.And once you did that, I went "Oh. Yeah. That makes sense." and then built a synthesis with your position, too.Hypocrisy, however, would be holding you to a different standard than I hold Dave2008 apropos of nothing. Just "Because". No rhyme or reason to it.But I don't do it for no reason. I do it because of my previous experiences with you.Because I -don't- want to engage in another 20 pages of trying very hard to pin down your position on a topic while you take my posts line by line and dissect them to try and build a negative argument that amounts to "You're wrong." without any kind of attempt to explain what would be "Right".I'm happy you're able to walk into our discussions clean slate. I'm glad you think I'm a first rate designer. And I do my best to try and understand your positions. I'd love it if you'd respond with a positive argument expressing your positions and what you think is "Right" rather than digging into what you think is "Wrong" more often.I think you and I would have a lot more constructive discussions that way, because it allows for synthesis and comparison of position.</blockquote>

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