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Originally Posted by mtravellerh
Intellectual exchange and debate has nothing whatsoever to do with personal attacks. I agree that debates are highly subjective, but to debase another one intellectually does not win your arguments.
Anyway, it's not the way we are discussing here. So you have two choices:
1 You stop your personal attacks
2 You're looking for new hunting grounds.
So, be advised that you are under close scrutiny. For the others: This is not a personal mood swing either. Please be aware that we won't tolerate any personal attacks.
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You quote Nietzsche in your signature.
Nietzsche entered the intellectual world with a book that was a devastating personal attack against the most popular intellectual in Germany at the time: David Strauss.
Would you ban Nietzsche if he joined this forum? Would you tell him to stop his personal attacks?
Would you keep his quote in your signature after discovering you did not understand him at all?
What do you do in front of someone more intelligent than you?
Tell him to be like you? Or do you try to become like him?