Norm wrote, "Thread closed because of assholes."

[Dbs6582]

The point was when people are losing an argument rather than conceding or agreeing to disagree they attack personally.

Okay Three, I concede I probably interpreted your original post incorrectly. Sorry about that. The sentence where we are in vilolent agreement is your sentence above. There is too much attacking the person rather than their ideas on this site.

[Sharky]

...Btw, as a rule of thumb, I use name calling to determine when one side is right and which is wrong. I’ve noticed when one side losses, they usually get frustrated and start calling the other side names. They know they have lost the argument but rather then admitting it, they go to the lowest form of arguing, which is name calling. Basically they attack the person, rather than their ideas.

These people who resort to name calling and put downs usually have a difficult time accepting new ideas that are different than theirs. I’ve many times seen a group of people do this to one indivual. It’s actually quite common. It’s why gangs enjoy beating up one weaker person. It helps feed their insecurities.

while dipshit prefers to infer stupidity:

"I could tell by the way it’s worded Sharky doesn’t understand business so I knew he wouldn’t understand my reply. It’s wrong on so many levels it was hard for me to know where to start. Also I saw Freightman ask an excellent question (something like what level constitutes a threat?). And Sharky couldn’t answer it. Why? Because Sharky doesn’t understand business."

Sharky, after nicely giving several examples, is more blunt with known trolls:

"a COMPLETE AND TOTAL IMBECILE....A STUPID, DUMBASS.....WORTHLESS, HELPLESS IDIOT"

my take, and i'm sticking to it!!!!

good luck