[count-your-change]

Metmom...that is spot on! Actual debate on these threads is a such rare thing that I can only suppose that the majority don't know how or don't want to debate, discuss or reason together.

Calling another poster a liar, heretic, cultist, drunk, bigot, X-basher or some other personal insult ends the discussion and turns it into a childish game of “can you top this?”

Who needs it!

[Natural Law]

"Actual debate on these threads is a such rare thing that I can only suppose that the majority don't know how or don't want to debate, discuss or reason together."

These threads are not debates, they are discussions and arguments (not to be confused with quarrels). Debates are games with strategies, tactics, teams, rules and human judges. Arguments are about revealing the truth. You ought to be lamenting the absence of logic and reasoning in these arguments instead of the "high-fiving" of gotcha comments and falsehoods. When it is the truth that wins, we all win. When the truth is the victim we all lose.