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Message: [QUOTE="ConwayGmck, post: 4470382, member: 10442"] My friend, you started out GREAT - then got a bit off-track. There is a distinct DIFFERENCE between "disagree" and "refute": to disagree is to simply not agree with or have an opposing opinion about an initial opinion; to refute is not only to disagree, but to challenge such an initial opinion in a challenging or confrontational manner. To deny your position. This is an open-forum message board for sharing of opinions, for debate and discussion of said opinions, and yes (I think) for comparing different opinions about the same topics. It also is certainly open to contradictory and even challenging viewpoints of opinions, as long as they remain in good faith and considerate. In my case, I read the comments in this thread, and found a simple question being asked - I even quoted that question in my above post: That IS a question, is it not? And while you may have added a bit of rhetoric to it with your final word on the matter, I felt that it was a question left unanswered, as it seemed to me to be a perspective based upon misinterpretation of a previous comment. So left unanswered, it could provide false narrative not only for YOU, but for others who may read it and come to the same misinterpretations you made, since no one was correcting them. I could have left it for Baylorfan to respond, but what if he doesn't see it? So I simply answered your question asked. I did NOT attack you, or your opinion. I did not challenge you to provide logic behind your interpretation. And this really didn't initially rise to the level of a "dispute" either, since it was only a question and answer: are you "disputing" my response? You seem to be in agreement with me. Am I "disputing" your initial question, or any response thereafter? Yes, I suppose NOW I am - I am disputing your assertion in response that my initial post was in refute or disputation of anything you've previously posted. But at the time I initially posted, no. So in summary, I was only practicing my privilege as a posting member of this message board, to respond to comments others make, to answer open questions in good faith, and to give healthy reasonable debate to positions I feel are misaligned. So perhaps my initial post is not that "bizarre" after all? And here I go and certainly make it bizarre - with no doubt left to that - with my follow-up...... :D [/QUOTE]

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