>>>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.

Walter has been disrespectful to me for YEARS. No one has done anything about it. I am now doing something about it. Let every see I think he's an idiot. I know it from first hand experience.
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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.

I did not react to it, but I am now not going to tolerate it. I am more correct and have better input to offer than he and his thugs.