Brian Ross wrote on Feb 15
th, 2017 at 12:15am:
Yadda wrote on Feb 14
th, 2017 at 11:26pm:
Brian Ross wrote on Feb 14
th, 2017 at 10:55pm:
Grendel wrote on Feb 14
th, 2017 at 1:04pm:
Oh but I do bwian... and do try to stick with my site id please otherwise you might find yourself breaking one of fd's rules. How many times have you tried that one on eh...
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/12/128170/2467911-yawn_20smiley.jpgTough, Geoff. You can call yourself what you like. I will call you by the name I first encountered you under.
People who are too frightened to stand by their opinions don't deserve any respect...
So Brian, i have reason to hope that you will respect me in the morning, perhaps tomorrow ?
Yes ?
Why? Is "Yadda" your real name?
#1If i posted my RL name here, i would then have to deal with attempts on my life, by persons who would justify those attempts on my life, by claiming that i had offended their religion/philosophy [i.e. as a blasphemer against their true faith].
But the fact that i would then have to deal with threats/attempts on my life, could not,
i would argue, change my opinions. ['opinions', once 'grasped' hold of, tend to be deeply held]
Revealing my RL name would not 'demonstrate' a 'principled' position, rather it would demonstrate, imo, irrationality, because the act of revealing my RL name would immeasurably 'complicate' my life/existence.
And if one of your friends actually succeeded in finding me, and in killing me, would that action/'success', demonstrate that his opinion was more valid or more 'principled', than my own opinion ?
#2Laying all of the above to one side......
I would rather just express my opinions/arguments in a public forum such as this one,
WHERE ANYONE WHO HAD A LEGITIMATE COMPLAINT AGAINST WHAT I HAD EXPRESSED, could engage with me, and use reason and the superiority of their own position/argument, to defeat me, and to demonstrate to everyone on this public forum, how mistaken/in error, my own position/opinions were.
"And if the detractors [of certain comments i have made] have a legitimate complaint, then let them air it [IN THE FORUM], and have their complaint tested in debate!
.....FOR ALL TO SEE."Brian, as much as you may want
#1 to occur.
Myself, i would simply like to be able to express what i believe, freely, and be free to demonstrate my foolishness, to the whole world.
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1485568203/1#1