Young Writers Society

MeanMrMustard wrote:Soo your answer is to be smug and stick your nose up to people who decide to debate and try to understand other opinions that might not be readily available where they live? This kind of notion is far too naive to be taken seriously. I debate because I enjoy it; I realize that people are not simple and merely the first impression I think they are. The level of pretentiousness here is by far greater than any internet debate. It should be fairly obvious drama for the sake of drama is pointless; debate across the internet is not.

It is much, much safer to debate on the Internet than it is in real life as people take things very seriously there, and they are generally not nice if you cannot debate in an orderly fashion. Increasingly I am seeing a complete aversion to debate and intellectual query in the general population of the world today, this is frightening. Where is the critical thinking going? Why is there such resentment?

So, no. You are not better. You're just naive; if the intention of this thread was towards general drama...yeah no, then you're playing semantics. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you.

this was exactly what ladypurple was trying to say... you did not have to comment on this and be mean about it. You could of said "I disagree with your point of view because I like debate" instead of calling her naive and smug. Maybe we should let these types of threads slide before we type. Either one way or another someone is going to get hurt. Besides, Mustard, lady was just doing the Great Nat's bidding.