Originally Posted by
EdwinHeadwind
I realize that for some lonely people, arguing with strangers on the Internet can be a means to fill an otherwise empty existence, as they imagine that their words confer an importance or significance upon themselves that they lack in real life. And as sympathetic as I am to their plight, I'm not at all inclined to entertain those afflicted, as doing so seems to only encourage them and thus prolong the correspondence. So please forgive me if I ignore your inevitable future attempts at gaining my attention. My interest and my patience have expired.
Sorry, but you are off-target once again. I have better things I could and would rather be doing than correcting you, but you see I feel some sort of responsibility to be a good, productive member of society. Conversing with you on this thread has been my way of giving something back. As you have probably noticed, our society (nationally, globally) isn't exactly at a high point these days, and so working to adjust thinking like yours is my small effort toward restoring it to its former glory.