Opinion of DavidB

[Associate Justice PiT]

In short, FF.  I like him.  More importantly, he's needed in many ways on this forum.  However, I find a lot of his views/comments really unfortunate, and I wish he'd explain them a lot more instead of trying to rile up lefties.

     FWIW, your average poster on this forum does not really merit having things explained. I used to spend so much time justifying my views to other people, and I have gradually come to see this for the waste of time that it is. I daresay that DavidB. is just further along on that curve than I am.

[Associate Justice PiT]

In short, FF.  I like him.  More importantly, he's needed in many ways on this forum.  However, I find a lot of his views/comments really unfortunate, and I wish he'd explain them a lot more instead of trying to rile up lefties.

     FWIW, your average poster on this forum does not really merit having things explained. I used to spend so much time justifying my views to other people, and I have gradually come to see this for the waste of time that it is. I daresay that DavidB. is just further along on that curve than I am.

Isn't justifying views/positions kind of the point of a political forum? If all of this - elections, political discussions, etc - is about pushing a set of beliefs/policies, it stands to reason that we'd be arguing why ours are needed and why others aren't.

Also at times I've found that justifying isn't always needed so much as simply explaining one's views and how they got there. I don't necessarily need someone to prove their positions are the right ones.

     If you were to check my most recent posts, you would see that my first page goes back to November 3rd. Yes it is the point of a political forum, and I do not see the point of doing it with most posters on this political forum. I'm a busy man and I have wasted too much of my life already explaining myself to people who couldn't care less to consider myself beholden to further doing so. If I consider it useful in a particular instance then I will and if I don't then I won't.

[Associate Justice PiT]

In short, FF.  I like him.  More importantly, he's needed in many ways on this forum.  However, I find a lot of his views/comments really unfortunate, and I wish he'd explain them a lot more instead of trying to rile up lefties.

     FWIW, your average poster on this forum does not really merit having things explained. I used to spend so much time justifying my views to other people, and I have gradually come to see this for the waste of time that it is. I daresay that DavidB. is just further along on that curve than I am.

That's fine if you're just saying your opinion on the matter ... it sucks to see David say a lib-triggering comment and being perfectly fine with people thinking he's intolerant, plain and simple.

     Considering how often I have found that perfectly normal opinions well within the political mainstream end up being "lib-triggering", I daresay that the line between the two is not as clear as you think. You might say that intentionality is the key point and I would generally agree, yet the prevailing standards of political discourse would tend to differ from that. People just assume your intentions all the time.