ResearchMonkey
Well-Known Member
Emotion is part of the human condition, vocalizing feeling and thought is perfectly acceptable in communication for a human being.For intelligent people, insults are always unnecessary. People resort to insults when they've got no useful argument ... but can't stand letting the other guy have the last word. The problem is exasperated where politics is concerned, since silence in that arena is deemed acceptance. As a rule, I restrain my insults to nose tweaks and hidden slights. Calling someone a fucking looser achieves nothing save to end any hope of the other guy caring about what you have to say.
Its true sometime people use insults as a replacement for a point, but is also true that sometimes insults are the exact thought someone would like to convey to another person. A nose tweak is no different, it serves the human condition.
I'm not say decorum doesn't have value, but even when proper decorum is followed there is offense placed into the discussion.
We are not computers nor Vulcans, we are human beings. Remove 100% of the human condition from the discussion and suddenly it becomes as lively as a volume of IRS regulations.