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Originally posted by Memnoch:
I have no problem with you disagreeing with me at all. Your objection has been noted. 
I'm here to enforce the rules, not to enforce my opinion on you. I'm asking for one thing - respect for your fellow posters going forward from now (I don't care what happened in the past). So no sarcasm that demeans people or their opinion, ESPECIALLY if you don't know how they will react to it. Fair?
No sarcasm that demeans people - the difficulty arises in that a comment that I do not feel to be at all personally demeaning to a person, may be taken as such by that person. I cannot know what is going on inside another person's head. If you mean 'intentionally' demeaning, yes, I can agree with that.
With regard to 'demeaning' people's opinions - I don't think I can agree to that, Memnoch. I have seen opinions posted on here, - like the one that wanted to see Afghani civilians six feet under - that I personally feel demeaned the person posting them. I reserve the right to disagree forcefully with an opinion. I also reserve the right to use sarcasm in my disagreement.
I also want to see people who disagree me retain the right to use sarcasm, should they so wish. Magness, to take an example, wrote me a post on the 'Aid' threat that is very disparaging about certain groups that he classes me as belonging to. That's just fine. I've written a reply that explains where I'm coming from, and hopefully corrects any misconceptions that he has (in my opinion.) He is free to respond as he wants. (This is NOT a complaint, Magness! Please don't stop being feisty and passionate about your beliefs on my account! Silly me, of course you wont.... [img]smile.gif[/img] )