Agreed, defending your views need not be any of those things. Unfortunately, it is very easy to let your defense degrade to that level. I'm not particularly interested in who initiated the animosity, I simply think that it's disruptive to the topic at hand.

I notice that you suggested to bns that he either put you both on ignore or simply not reads posts of that nature. I think that is somewhat of an unfair proposition. Firstly, if he were to ignore you it could deprive him of any future valid or helpful posts that you make. Secondly, a person can't simply 'un-read' an unhelpful comment, so not reading posts of an inflammatory nature is an implausible prospect.

I see that it is also unfair to ask you and Rasczak to ignore each other for the same reasons. Of all of the unfair resolutions that are possible, that is the least so, because you two can be fairly certain that you have nothing pleasant to say to each other and have the most reason to not want to read the others comments.

Meh, I'll continue to read all the comments in a thread and enjoy the good ones while cringing at the inappropriate ones.