Re: Schrodinger's Fifty Yard Volley

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:33:22 +0100, "Col" <reddwarfer2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

"Saviour Machine" <hauntedriver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 16 Jun, 19:17, "Schrodinger" <n...@xxxxxxx> wrote:


I'm not sure if I'm winding you up, or you me. Either way this isn't going
to be resolved. I would rather agree to disagree on the subject and not
get
into a pointless argument about this.

Well, I don't know about anyone else, but this has to be the most
sensible and economically expressed comment I've ever seen in UMTM.

I hereby declare this statement to be Schrodinger's Law. Whenever
arguments get silly, nasty or heated, Schrodinger's Law should be
invoked to terminate the discussion so that people can move on to more
positive things.

Some time ago I got into argument here with somebody I can't remember
over a subject I can't remember either. After a certain time we had each
made our points and were starting to repeat ourselves, adding nothing new
to the discussion. I then attempted to bow out with words to the effect of
'I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one, mate!'.
But the other guy was *outraged* by this!
How *dare* I try to walk away from this, you can't do that, stay here
and fight like a man! Perhaps he thought I was chickening out of the
argument, I don't know.
Presumably he would have preferred us both to continue arguing in
an ever increasing level of abusiveness, no doubt finishing off with
both of us calling each other 'cunts'.
And at the end of all that, we would *still* have differed in whatever
the hell it was we were arguing about, so what would have been the point??

Happens a lot. Whenever I've said what I think, and the other person
has stated their case I try to just leave it at that. What more is to
be said? Like you say, it just degenerates into name calling.
Although some people just leap into the name-calling straight from the
word go. Why do people do that? Do they think it makes them look
tough? Like you have to be a real hard man to jump straight into a
usenet argument calling someone a '***'. You just know they're the
kind of people who wouldn't say boo to a goose in real life. :)
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