I go with reasoned but civil is always optional
I do not want civil discourse
He recalls all that civility from the left.
I’m usually civil. But there are ideas and ideals that are abhorrent in every way to me. They run counter to principles. You don’t get a say sometimes. And when someone is using one of these ideals in a argument, I often find it best to tell them to fuck right off. Same when someone is redefining the argument.
Billy: You step in it: you bloody walk through it like a grown-up.
January 17th, 2011 at 12:10 pm
While the man’s name is celebrated today, rehearse his words to the left:
“Our lives begin to end, the day we become silent about things that matter.” –- Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 17th, 2011 at 1:27 pm
This even sounds less sound than barbaric discourse. At least with barbaric discourse their is an alternative. When you advocate no solution but hate something you reach the point of anarchy…
There is always negotiation by other means…
January 17th, 2011 at 2:16 pm
When the schoolyard bully, like Paul Helmke, offers you the choice between handing over your lunch money or a punch in the face, the appropriate response is not “civil discourse”.
January 17th, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Exactly Chas. There is something to be said for being a barbarian…
January 17th, 2011 at 3:11 pm
Chas,
Right! Because only your enemy wants you disarmed.
People like Helmke want to stand back and have the hired guns do his disarming for him. But those who come to disarm us should be treated like the criminals they are. Violence is good when it is used to dissuade or stop those who come to steal or kill if you don’t surrender to them
January 17th, 2011 at 6:42 pm
Those that demand civility the most (and usually the loudest), practice it the least!
January 18th, 2011 at 2:30 am
Civility is wasted on liberals.