Reply #20: Look, [b]I[/b] didn't feel like playing nice with her either,

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but when I look at what I ended up doing, I'm somewhat sickened. And the fact that I descended to her level and replied in kind hurts me more than her BS post ever could.

And come on, I never advocated turning the other cheek... Be fair :) All I said that we don't let them drag us down to their level. I have nothing against a good one-liner, and nothing against defending one's own viewpoint either, but a flame war ultimately hurts us more than it hurts them. Try to imagine how it looks from the POV of a dispassionate observer: 2 sides engaged in identical mud-slinging and name-calling, or 1 side spewing BS and the other replying with dispassionate arguments. I mean, we do play to the reality crowd, do we not?