tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post2305895905764673710..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: The Letter And The Spirit Part 2: Moral SurgeryFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-67204334000011291822015-02-23T17:46:17.947-05:002015-02-23T17:46:17.947-05:00PS -- There's always this rather darker explan...PS -- There's always this rather <a href="http://igst.blogspot.com/2015/02/a-theory-as-to-underlying-pathology-of.html" rel="nofollow">darker explanation</a> of this leftist behavior.Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-35577634386127040582015-02-23T17:38:11.538-05:002015-02-23T17:38:11.538-05:00A good nerve to lay your finger on, Fran. It'...A good nerve to lay your finger on, Fran. It's crystal clear that people who think they have no intellectually supportable arguments to make MUST resort to invective.<br /><br />I had an amusing exchange with a troll who maintained that a certain Christian preacher was guilty of bigotry or something. I asked him to provide one example. Four evasions later none had been provided but I did garner the observation that I am full of garbage. At least he did not use profanity but it was necessary for him to distance himself from any possible factual basis for his assertion.Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-33901534554362673112015-02-20T15:12:12.696-05:002015-02-20T15:12:12.696-05:00In my younger days I would handle the insult with ...In my younger days I would handle the insult with this simple statement, "Don't make me defend my honor." That usually was enough to ensure domestic tranquility. Funny how that statement evoked politeness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-34987979776131290272015-02-20T10:15:09.125-05:002015-02-20T10:15:09.125-05:00Sometimes, I wonder if the prohibition of consensu...Sometimes, I wonder if the prohibition of consensual dueling was misguided. It seems to me that the rules of civility were enforced by that unspoken threat of imminent death. The Gentleman's code rested on that threat. Few Progressives would exhort such rhetorical filth if the consequences of such involved bullets or swords.<br /><br />In any event I fully agree with your premise. I remember engaging a liberal in a debate, one of the exceptional few who actually still follows the code somewhat. Our conversation was firm, but respectful. A conservative, nominally on my side of the debate, butted in and started calling my opponent various unmentionables.<br /><br />I politely told him to buzz off, that he wasn't doing my argument any favors by inserting his colorful rhetoric into it. Be careful about the enemies you choose, but also about the friends.<br /><br />Still, as my writing the other day attests, when a Progressive no longer feels bound by the code, neither should we. I suspect a great deal of the decline of our civilization results from us, essentially, being too patient with them. When they first dispensed with the code, we should have declined to have anything to do with them until they returned to it.<br /><br />An excellent post, sir.Manuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13082153758868357687noreply@blogger.com