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Originally posted by Caine:
Thank You,I am still bloody new at this forum despite the ammount of posts,I wont attack any living being (yet)
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Nobody will be attacking any living being here, now or ever.
To everyone else:
Caine is entitled to dislike Aerie, just as the rest of you are entitled to like Aerie. But shouldn't you all be able to agree to disagree in a rational manner? Caine, you've made your point and are starting to repeat yourself. Repeating yourself begins to sound a bit like spam and flamebaiting to me.
All the Aerie-lovers, ignore him if he tries flamebaiting. You won't change his mind, he'll hate Aerie no matter what, so what's the point?
Let me post this note that I posted in our War on Terrorism Forum. I never thought I'd need to post it here, over a computer game.
Just adding some general guidelines as well to Ziroc's post.
- I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.[/list]This is the cornerstone around which the concept of freedom of speech is built, as long as it is done with respect for others.
- Debating is not about winning or losing, it's about expressing a point of view and listening to another person expressing theirs. There is no shame in agreeing to disagree when the argument starts to go nowhere.[/list]
- Don't take things personally. Life's too short to get upset about another person's point of view.[/list]I know most of you love a good spirited debate, since most of you are quite strongly opinionated, if somewhat tactless about expressing opinions, serenely confident in your righteousness and in the other's wrongness. This is not a problem unless you start making snide remarks about each other which don't have anything to do with the topic at hand, as this usually leads to shouting profanities at each other, which then becomes a problem. However, I'm sure will not happen, given that we're all VERY good at exercising self-control, right?
Just remember that two of the most difficult things to do on the internet are: 1) admit that you can't change the other person's point of view; and 2) accept that failing to change the other person's point of view does NOT mean you have lost the argument. 
Now chill out, all of you. Take deep breaths. If this thread continues on the same vein I might have to lock it because of spam.
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[This message has been edited by Memnoch (edited 10-16-2001).]