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Alara317 on 17 December 2012
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happydolphin said:
Alara317 said:

give an intelligent, well-rationed argument and you'll get a civil response.  You really have to wonder where the issue originates.  I've been watching this thread, and the only people getting uncivil responses are the ones who completely fail to present intelligent responses. 

If I've offered responses that are not to your liking, then you can report them. Let the moderators judge whether I'm being reasonable or not. It's their job after all.

And even so, even if I were not being reasonable (which I was not but let me bend to your thought for a moment), my crossing the line doesn't warrant yours. So if I'm being uncivil, those users still in replying to me  shouldn't be uncivil, lest they be banned.

That's one of the problems this thread was meant to address:  The fact that religion gets handled with kids gloves.  If anyone else was making the same nonsensical claims and were being as dense as some of the people in this thread regarding any other topic, they'd be laughed off the board.  But since it's religion, and religion is sacred, it's okay to use faulty arguments since they've been in existence for the better part of a millenium.  

It's not about your responses not being to my liking, some responses despite disagreeing with my point have been agreeable and mature.  Criticising science and evolution and the credibility of the group of most intelligent people on earth is not something that should be tolerated.  That's flaming a group (of scientists), which is no worse than me flaming a group (of religious people).  

I'm also noticing a huge problem with the mods responding negatively to semantics.  I can call you ignorant as long as I back it up with explanations as to WHY you're ignorant, but if I use the words stupid, moronic, imbecillic, or any other variation indicating you're less than intelligent, I will get banned, even if you had an IQ of 75 and my claims were entirely true.  Now, I'm not saying this about you, but some people in this thread certainly have shown an aggressive dedication to willful ignorance, and I can't think of any way to describe them other than 'flat out stupid'.  Not becuase they don't agree with me, but because they can't grasp the simplest ideas regarding logic and rationale.  Believe it or not, there is such a thing as a stupid person, modern culture has led us to believe everyone is special;  this is a falsehood, not everyone is special. 

I'll probably be banned for this, based on what I've seen.