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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7382544" data-attributes="member: 4937">Regardless of the utility you have found in your conversations, what I frequently discover is that I get all these people saying how much they disagree with me, and then follow up that statement or thesis with a bunch of things that I do not in fact disagree with.Your examples are spot on to what I'm trying to communicate.I'm not going to give you any ultimatums, but I find it ironic you are going to police me about polite conversation when you open up yours with &quot;Just going to say this once-&quot;.&nbsp; I could quibble with tons of other ways you write, for example I consider the phrase &quot;just my opinion&quot; vaguely insulting, but I'm not actually interested in tone policing or getting into a lecture on how you ought to write.If it makes you feel better to think of my response in this manner, then I'll happily reword my response.&nbsp; If in fact you disagree with me, you have done absolutely nothing to make it clear why you disagree with me.&nbsp;&nbsp; And as long as we are talking pet peeves, one of my biggest pet peeves is someone stating &quot;You are wrong!&quot; and then providing a whole list of reasons why that I don't actually disagree with.&nbsp; Whether it is conscious or unconscious behavior, I consider this well poisoning.&nbsp;&nbsp; But again, do we really want to go there, looking for reasons to be offended?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7382544, member: 4937"] Regardless of the utility you have found in your conversations, what I frequently discover is that I get all these people saying how much they disagree with me, and then follow up that statement or thesis with a bunch of things that I do not in fact disagree with. Your examples are spot on to what I'm trying to communicate. I'm not going to give you any ultimatums, but I find it ironic you are going to police me about polite conversation when you open up yours with "Just going to say this once-". I could quibble with tons of other ways you write, for example I consider the phrase "just my opinion" vaguely insulting, but I'm not actually interested in tone policing or getting into a lecture on how you ought to write. If it makes you feel better to think of my response in this manner, then I'll happily reword my response. If in fact you disagree with me, you have done absolutely nothing to make it clear why you disagree with me. And as long as we are talking pet peeves, one of my biggest pet peeves is someone stating "You are wrong!" and then providing a whole list of reasons why that I don't actually disagree with. Whether it is conscious or unconscious behavior, I consider this well poisoning. But again, do we really want to go there, looking for reasons to be offended? [/QUOTE]

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