Reply #16: I notice how you failed to reconcile your contradictory thoughts.

[tom_paine]

I also notice how eager you are to absolve yourself in the responsibility.

"Me? I'll sit right here continuing to know that those things this government has done in which I do not agree, have been done in no part due to my responsibility."

So the 1930s Germans weren't responsible, then? That is the logic of your position. If it isn't, please explain why the things your government did which you sit there and silently disagree with makes your situation different from the 1930s Germans who also felt no repsonsibility for the things which their government did that they disagreed with, that they sat there and accepted as you do, cleansing themselves of the responsibility.

But why bother, when a smart-assed short declarative comment will do just as well to my lengthy, reasoned question about contradictory thoughts, which you dodged but not artfully.

There's a couple issues I take with you, OMC. One is, you never EVER admit there might be some validity in the positon of another. Say what you want to about me, but people here have made me think, made me reassess my positions or consider it. It's all archived on the DU servers.

And number two is you never EVER (or so seldom as to appear to be never) seem to engage in rational debate, preferring the short declarative smears which so often have pissed me off in the past. Why do I waste time articulating and fleshing out a position with you, when all I get is a flip reply that you whip out in two seconds without thinking?

I have tried to find common ground with you, tried to respect you, but damn it, can't you see that when you do those things it makes it hard? And it seems clear with your flip bullshit answers, taking no time at all to debate properly, you indicate you return that respect not in the least?

(I know, I know...insert flippant OMC comment here...perhaps "I could care less about your respect" or something along those lines)

I felt and feel sympathy for your terrible tragedy. It humanized you to me in a way that you never could from your replies...short, declarative and pretty fucking mean, usually.

I know I haven't been perfect, I'm a hothead sometimes. But I try to give people a chance to debate, and I try not be hotheaded and mean unless provoked. Can't you see how your way does nothing but provoke nor add to the debate?

I asked you a legitimate question. I took the time to speak to you like a mensch, as we Jews say. And for the hundredth time, you blew me off with a flip, mean reply, taking a shot at me as you often do.

So why are you here, OMC? To take shots at idiots you despise? Maybe you should try the website, Something Awful. I hear that's all they do. They love to ruin people and piss them off just for the sake of doing it.

I don't know what else to say to you. I don't know how to get through to you. Maybe if I have a personal tragedy I can become a human being to you, instead of some fucking cardboard cutout of an idiot.

I don't expect an answer. I expect you to take another shot at me. I don't expect you to have a conversation with me.

Don't you know? I'm not a human being here, just a cardboard cutout of an idiot.

Goodnight, OMC.