>>>I never said you cannot get by without it. I said that based on all the crap I have seen and continue to see, and the people who cannot even debug 3 lines of code because of a missing mdot, it is necessary.
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>I'm going to play the great philosopher: I present the Rule of Ryan, which is that most human conflict condenses down to one word: Respect. Lack of it, or demand for it, or even oversupply of it, seems to accompany most human conflict/bad outcomes that could have been avoided.
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>Rule of Ryan # 2 is that you cannot change others, only the way you react to them.
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>Rule of Ryan # 3 is that humans are not rational creatures, they are rationalizing creatures. Meaning that some will rationalize Rule #1 as validation of perceived lack of respect towards themselves, rather than reflecting on Rule # 2.
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>None of the above is new; every organized religion has a version while propagandists use variants especially of #1 and #3 to manipulate others.

Except that decades of harassment is enough. This harassment causes people to not want to come here. They are exposed to stupidity and noise when the best of use are told by the peanut gallery we are "WRONG". Further, I asked him to stop. He refused. That is when I ramped up my complaints. If you stab me and refuse to stop, you should be arrested. In this case the offending party should be banned.