Armond Perretta wrote:

Dick Locke wrote:
"Armond Perretta" wrote:
Dick Locke wrote:

One of the quickest ways for a newsgroup to degenerate is to have
people attacking the integrity of their opponents. Please respect
the sincere beliefs of those with whom you disagree without
emotional characterizations.

Nonsense. That's bull****.

That's an argument?

Actually, Roy, it's a vain attempt at humor. I should have known better.

To paraphrase _your_ remark, one of the quickest way for a newsgroup to
degenerate is ... for people like you who should _also_ know better
to start giving lectures on behavior to other people you've never met.

Why you feel you should impose your own demands on complete strangers is
your own affair. In the meantime, please spare the long-suffering regulars
in this group the display of pomposity. Moral reformers have come and gone
here for years now, and another round of "thou shall's" or "thou shall
not's" is hardly necessary.

Unless Dick Locke' name is also "Roy", it looks like you've addressed
him incorrectly. The remark you responded to is not mine.
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The last stage of
utopian sentimentalism
is homicidal mania.