<p>Seasong,</p>
<p>Welcome to CC. With two posts I don’t know how long you’ve been lurking… but there are patterns at work here. </p>
<p>I am very happy to debate legitimate points raised by FS or anyone else but I don’t like defending against deliberate hyperbole. It reminds me too much of Fox News. </p>
<p>FS & I have debated before and when she calms down she is very interesting, with a unique persepective. Search for an old thread on Christian Politicians and you will find one such debate, which evolved into an interesting conversation about poetry. That’s why I even bothered… she’s capable of better. </p>
<p>When examples, metaphors, comparisons are used to ILLUSTRATE SPECIFIC POINTS and then they are mis-quoted in a different (or much larger) context, this is not intellecutally honest, it’s just incendiary. </p>
<p>My illustaration about a kid who OD’d was by no mean equating doing drugs and military service. It was illustrating that a parent could in good conscience fundamentally oppose the actions/choices of a child they deeply loved. One could make the same point with a more neutral example, like a kid who died skateboarding without a helmet, or being killed as a miner… the miner’s mom has a right to say to her grandkids, or her neighbors “PLEASE don’t be a miner!”… Agreed?</p>
<p>Quite true that other posters made unseemly remarks and I did not comment. Throwaway lines by posters who will not join the conversation I generally ignore.</p>