On the ethics of debate

People really should review the sequence before offering an opinion on this sort of thing. Robinrohan made an off-topic remark about my dealings with the ToE, I gave him an off-topic answer about the ToE being a hoax and suggesting he test the ToE in a certain way, and bkelly had a major conniption fit that I dared to have a negative opinion about the ToE, as if that were anything new. It WASN'T "a legitimate question!!!" It was a rude off-topic interruption. Suddenly this minor tit-for-tat with RR has been dragged into bkelly's major outrage and I'm supposed to respond to this whole other context I have absolutely no interest in at the moment. I was not talking to bkelly, he rudely interrupted. He then pointed me to another thread about definitions of the ToE which as far as I could see was completely irrelevant to the point, so I didn't go there, about which he complained even further. Before I knew it I was being upbraided for all manner of crimes against science, nothing new there either really, and bk continues to rudely complain about this. I've simply taken to ignoring him.This message has been edited by Faith, 12-21-2005 08:45 AM

I was responding to his hypothetical questions, not any particular incident. I think I made an allowance for that in my answer. Obviously if something like you described occurred, that wasn't in context of the discussion, it wouldn't be incumbent on you to reply. I don't blame you if that is your perception of the incident (again I couldn't possibly say since I was only responding to the three questions and not about what happened between you and bkelly). There are a couple of people I ignore as well.

Thank you.