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Originally Posted by shakran
I'm not advocating calling the person cranking out the dumbassed ideas a dumbass. But by the same token I won't do the false-polite "well I hear what you're saying and I respect that but perhaps you would consider. . ."
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Well, I am in agreement. Lending too much credit to an un-creditable position goes too far. Him just not saying dumbass is good enough. He can pretty much tear up the logic of the other person's statement and make him look like a dumbass without ever having to say it. But no, you definitely don't need to play up your "respect" of the other person either.
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Originally Posted by Gebbinn
In my own personal opinion, one of the big problems we have in the world today is everyone is too damn nice. There was a time, when a person acting like an idiot was dealt with as an idiot, and they either wised up, or got run out of town. However, now a person can act like an idiot and whenever someone speaks up against them, that person is chastised and ostracized until they back down, thus leaving the idiot to feel that they have the right of things.
If only we could smack people in the back of the head for their idiocy, much like Gibbs does on NCIS, the world would be a much nicer place to live in.
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You really think people are too nice? Really? I don't see it at all that way. From the "media" to the guy on the street all I see daily is people being very disrespectful of each other. The loudest and meanest are ones who have no reality based facts to back up their stances, just vile rhetoric. I think we are living under a mythology that there really is a PC police, without any evidence of it actually occuring.
See I didn't call anyone or their ideas dumb.