some sort of response follows pretty inevitably - again, social conventions.
Why? Does every comment require a reply?
If one feels the need to reply, one could always quote Henry Kissinger's "Reasonable men [sic] may differ", which at least puts oneself and one's adversary on equal footing, rather than setting oneself up as the calm and reasonable one who is being magnanimous enough to apologize for whatever pain they ACCIDENTALLY caused to the unstable loony they're talking to.
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Date: 2009-07-31 10:59 pm (UTC)Why? Does every comment require a reply?
If one feels the need to reply, one could always quote Henry Kissinger's "Reasonable men [sic] may differ", which at least puts oneself and one's adversary on equal footing, rather than setting oneself up as the calm and reasonable one who is being magnanimous enough to apologize for whatever pain they ACCIDENTALLY caused to the unstable loony they're talking to.