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Originally Posted by Tribesman
Which responses?
There is one response that strikes me as coloured by passion, and that is by someone agreeing with you(though they havn't even seen the movie).
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Well, now, one has to understand the nature of passion in order to recognize it's signature. There are many forms of passion but for all intents and purposes, it is something that elicits emotion. Emotion tends to cause arousal.
The passion I was referring to deals with superfluity of response. There are reasonable responses and then there are responses that rise above that which is warranted or necessary. For instance, the arousal that would cause someone to pick apart another member's post, almost sentence by sentence while interjecting specific words with suggestion of attitude that would insinuate or suggest that the poster is ridiculous, uncouth, or any other derogatory indication.
Then there are shorter replies where passion is evident when those replies attempt to suggest something, or anything negative about the poster. Passion is the reason that homicide victims are sometime found in a state of overkill; i.e., they've been stabbed or shot many many times beyond that which was needed to cause the victim's death.
Want to see passion in a forum? Just look for overkill or supererogatory responses. That is, going beyond what is needed to make ones point or ridiculing/belittling another in order to make that point.
