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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5699263" data-attributes="member: 7006">Am I trying to show people the 'error' of their preferences?  You know... that's a good question.  And to be perfectly honest... I've rewritten this response line a couple different times now, trying to figure out whether the answer is yes or no.  I started with 'no' a couple times, and each time as I continued, my response was never to my satisfaction.I think if I was completely honest with myself, the answer actually is 'yes'.And here's the reason: I am a very logical person and I see things through the eyes of logic and reason.  And when people say things that don't seem to make sense to me... I question them on it.  Partly because I enjoy having discussions of this sort because they are about subjects I find very interesting and are a mental challenge to formulate response.  And partly because I enjoy trying to show other people the sides of the coin I'm seeing... invariably because in response someone will show me the side of the coin that I don't, and my eyes get opened to some truths I might have missed.Now let me state unequivocably that no malice is intended with any of this (although goodness knows I've been kicked out of a couple threads because the moderators have thought I've gone too far)... it's all just interesting and intriguing discussions about what someone else sees as a matter of course that I myself am blinded to.  And vice versa.My feeling has always been that when I respond to things I see as false or just a small part of a big picture and make my points... if someone then responds back to me to counterpoint,  then they want the discussion just as much.  And so the thread goes.Easiest way to get me to shut up is just by ignoring me.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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