| Well I did say I would "attempt" to employ it, but sometimes trying something new can be challenging!! |
I didn't mean to "tattle" on you and Jasamcarl to Cari. But speaking someones name can indeed cause them to appear.
I did look back through the posts and it really wasn't you that started the name calling. There was nothing in your first post that was inflammatory or insulting. It was Ignuss response that first used the word stupid and was unwarranted.
Even your response to the insult by Ignuss didn't resort to name calling, so far so good. That's when Jasamcarl chimed in with an immediate personal attack with no other redeeming content. Ignuss followed with some argument to your point but at least didn't continue the name calling. That's when I jumped in and tried to calm things down a bit.
It wasn't until your third post after two personal attacks that you sunk to their level, but at that point you jumped right in with both feet. From there on out it was he said/she said and who was right and who was wrong quickly began to not matter.
If I were to assign blame I would put far more of it onto Jasamcarl than I would on you, but in the end it just doesn't matter. It does take two to tango and you can always end it by walking away and letting the other person have the last word, even if he is a cretin. It's hard to be the better man but you could have let him babble on thinking he'd "won", but any intelligent person would understand what had happened. You come off better by making a reasonable argument and then when it becomes clear that the other person isn't capable of rational argument, just walking away.
