--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote: > > TurquoiseB wrote: > > I guess one could make a case for arguing being a > > form of entertainment. If the one making this case > > doesn't have a life, that is. :-) > > Don't forget we've got some bullheaded people here who can't > seem to discuss issues. It's either their way or the highway.
That's what I was trying to get at in post #235258. The very *concept* of compulsive arguing mystifies me. It's like shouting to the world, "I HAVE AN EGO." :-) > On some other groups discussion actually occurs. Yup. On other forums I participate in, "discussion" often takes the form of sometimes agreeing, sometimes disagreeing, but *rarely* descending to the level of ad hominem. Furthermore, on those forums people are *creative*, and both willing and able to take a subject and then springboard off of it into completely new territory. And in such a way that people want to follow, and see where this non-sequitur might lead. That's my idea of "discussion." On FFL -- due I think to the overinfluence of one compulsive arguer -- the idea of discussion has degenerated to "Call the other person names and claim that in doing so you 'won.'"
