Hamas admits 72% of deaths are combat-aged men as it quietly reduces civilian death toll - report

[Beastly Boy]

25. I will certainly respond accordingly the minute I see a genuine effort to have a constructive discussion.

In this instance, however, it appears that I have a rather long wait ahead of me. You may find it strange, but when I see someone make a claim that they cannot back up when challenged, and stray into opinionated assessments of my communication skills instead, I don't find it particularly supportive of a genuine and constructive discussion.

Of course, if your claims of comprehending my post were accurate, I would have had no need to repeat what I already stated: my reference to the OP was in response to YOUR rather transparent and, it turns out, totally unfounded allusion to the OP, not the opinions expressed in it. It was a response to YOUR presumptuous opinion, not that of the OP.

And you are quite right, it is not just you who appears to be completely unserious about having constructive discussions. This happens rarely, but more often than I have time for. But in certain cases, when I find these unserious discussions particularly unencumbered by rhyme or reason, I respond to them in a commensurately abrasive manner. More often than I care for, I get responses of an ad hominem nature that bypass my arguments, and that includes repeated pledges to ignore my posts.

Nothing new. These responses, however, do not create in me a sense of obligation to end my objections, and if you indeed choose to disregard my posts (an outcome which, given explicit nature of such pledges, I find quite rare), it will not stop me from challenging the nonsense I can demonstrate to be objectionable.