Quote Originally Posted by Rockette View Post
Ok, let me rephrase.



Why is this forum not somewhere that OP should have opened a dialogue on? Why is this not the place to bring this conversation?
I said so in the post you quoted me from............................

Since I need to summarize myself again apparently: ahem, this is the forums. To come here for "debate," to come here to inform when people are already set in their ways / beliefs and will typically respond the way that typical forum-goers do is not productive. Like I said for the 5th time, people are echoing what people have said before one another, it's the same stuff being brought up over and over again, and in the midst of this thread, there already seems to have been some sort of silver lining, or as close to an understanding as there can be here. There is literally nothing else to get out of this thread, except people regurgitating the same points that have already been made (or, again, jumping down the op's throat). So for what's best for all parties involved is that the thread be closed.

This conversation is doing better on other parts of the internet, where there is less THIS going on, where dialogues are opening, and where people are learning far better than what is happening here. And that was inevitable, because this is the forums, where civility is very rare. This is a very hot topic that doesn't fit this climate (which is made VERY clear, by some of the responses in this thread).