On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:27:33 +0200, Mxsmanic spent about fifty paragraphs
to call me a liar over and over again without actually engaging in
productive debate. I therefore didn't bother to quote any of it, except
for his parting shot, which I shall address momentarily.

Suffice it to say that I am growing weary of these unprovoked attacks
from Mxsmanic and Dudley Henriques. I did nothing to provoke these
relentless and unpleasant criticisms; all I did was say this:

Consider who would have been landing the plane if something had caused
the pilot to also conk out, though. Then her prior flight experience
would have become quite relevant indeed.

Nothing any SANE person would respond to with the hostility and sheer
TENACITY exhibited by Mxsmanic, in particular.

I further observe that Mxsmanic seems to have a large number of
detractors, all sharing the same general opinion: Mxsmanic is a self-
styled know-it-all that actually knows nothing. Presumably, putting
others down while making inflated claims about his own expertise is his
primary means of ego tripping. Sad, if true.

Why not discuss the topic, instead of other people?

A very good question. Why not, Mxsmanic? In the last two weeks you have
spent post after post, dozens of them in all, being subtly hostile and
insulting towards me without apparent provocation. I made a simple
statement that should have been uncontroversial and you attacked it. I
responded in my own defense and you attacked that, and so on. Then your
"legions of admiring fans" showed up to flame you for your silliness, and
even then I remained the primary focus of your attention. You have
replied to a handful of the others' posts but to nearly every single one
of mine. Clearly you have a problem of some sort with me. I doubt it's
the simple fact that I disagree with you about something. Perhaps it's
that I dare to CONTINUE to disagree with you even after you've made it
clear that we disagree, instead of instantly confessing to having been
stupid and swearing to always believe whatever you say in the future?

Actually, what would genuinely be stupid of me would be to give in to
that sort of intellectual bullying and start believing blindly in the
first thing anyone told me to believe "or else".

In fact, your behaviorally-implied "start agreeing with me or I'll flame
you and flame you and flame without end" amounts to an illegitimate,
logically-void argument from force.

The only problem is, it seems we have you outnumbered. You have what, one
ally here? And at least half a dozen enemies, including one new one --
me. Probably one more enemy than you could afford to make. You messed up
big time deciding to pick a fight with me on Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:51:12
+0200. That timestamp shall someday be indelibly burned in your memory,
when all is said and done; you will rue that day, hour, minute, and
second perhaps for the rest of your life.

Well, unless I decide to have mercy on your poor, misguided, silly little
soul.

Of course, I can't vouch for your half a dozen OTHER enemies, who you
probably ****ed off in much the same way as you got my back up, by
popping up out of nowhere one day to keep not merely disagreeing with
some particular random, innocuous statement they'd made but including
repeated suggestions of stupidity, incompetence, or dishonesty on their
parts, conveyed with a condescending tone, while not actually knowing
what you're talking about.

Perhaps you should ask them for forgiveness. Oh, and stop verbally
attacking me or anybody else.