Linc I couldn't agree with you more. A little heated disagreement can't hurt.

I also agree with Loz who I have enormous respect for in that respectful disagreemet is fine. The problem is, of course, that the line between respectful disgreement and offending argument is completely subjective. As for me I have no problem with someone telling me that I am a dolt and that my opinions are inane and I should purchase a clue or two. I would probably be offended but only for about a nano second and then be curious as to why and if I might be so wrong or why someone would think it, even if it meant they were foolish by my standard of thinking.

THe thing is with AS when you're body has stolen from you many of the things you can DO, it seems more important than for other folks that no one minimalize the iport of what you SAY. So if one were to err in being too liberal in allowing someon to vent it doesn't seem like a bad idea.

I don't mean this for the admin's as much as I do for us allowing each other to say things without getting clobbered.

All of this political issue stuff and world issue thingees are after all tomfoolery here since what we post won't change the unvierse a lick yet the good word we give a fallen ASKicker or the information we may give to smeone shall shape a life of someone in pain. I'll forget this thread in a couple of weeks. Two and three decades from today my girls will still have for posterity photos of the love that came to them from around the world in the form of diapers that stacked so high the pile stood taller than me. SO what's important at KickAS a political spat or a soon to be soiled diaper. THe answer is easy and rather sublime.



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