supportive to whom? thats the million dollar question really, isn't it.

i'm sorry that in the absence of cues some people are seeing raised, hostile, and angry voices rather than the calm and level headed exchange of opinion that i'm seeing.

i see the words 'why can't you just agree to disagree?' thrown around a lot...

what does it mean? how is the conversation failing to acknowledge that different people feel differently? isn't that precisely what we were exploring?

I quite often think the words 'agree to disagree' are really a way of saying that one has to be quiet.

and why?

is it such a crime for different people to have different opinions?

such a crime so that we can't possibly say what we think unless we are agreeing 100% with the poster who started the thread?

is that really how people want things to run here?

i don't understand.