Parker Peters wrote:
David's action that I questioned was only the most recent example. And I will make no apologies for questioning a user's conduct, because we are supposed to question conduct that we don't agree with.
My own complaint about the David reference had nothing to do with the specific differences. It's really a problem with examples generally.
When one undertakes to talk about a serious problem and uses a reference to an incident with a specific person, an unfortunately large proportion of readers will glom onto the personal reference and talk about it to the exclusion of the point one is trying to make.
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