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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5322514" data-attributes="member: 177">You don't make your case more solid by being insulting.  Please don't do that.Your statement was vague and (to me, at least) confusing.  I asked what you meant, and instead of explaining, you've been impolite.  I don't understand your reaction.Actually, I'm pretty sure that in common usage, "the debate used to be X" frames matters as a single (perhaps protracted) discussion about a single issue.  I don't see that it (as I guess "it" to be, as you haven't clarified) has been either.  So have probably 72 other points.  "The debate" is not just about one of them.  The debate has roamed the hills and dales of points.  To suggest otherwise not only inaccurately represents events, but trivializes many valid concerns.</blockquote>