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It matters not to me whether you like me or not, Seadragon, or whether you think my posts are intellectual, interesting and thought-provoking, or otherwise, so please don't bother to patronise me. My mother always told me 'you're judged by the company you keep', and it would serve you well to remember that. The person you're aiming your posts at is not the only one reading them, and the same applies to the posts of the people you support. Additionally, it's important to get your facts straight before embarking on a negative critique of someone else, because insults and inaccurate accusations can always be traced and, unless you do your homework, there's every likelihood you will be proven wrong.
As far as being disrespectful is concerned, your frequent apologies are patently meaningless, because the only rudeness I can see on this thread has come from your arrogance in assuming that you are somehow qualified to dictate the way in which others should conduct their debate. You ask Beso 'Why the hell should anyone really be subjected to personal criticism from anonymous people?' Perhaps, since you are clearly so eager to criticise, you should remove the plank from your own eye, take your own advice to practise what you preach, and answer your own question.
And for your information, this site has ended up with just the select few debating amongst themselves - but that isn't due to anything the long-term users have done, so perhaps that's something else you might like to think about before you decide to sermonize again.
Now, if you've finished throwing your rubber bricks, hopefully we can stop with this nonsense for good, and perhaps you will do Chakka the courtesy of allowing anyone who wants to join in the original debate to concentrate on the subject in hand.