German court bans circumcision

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

It's what he does. I just finished standing up for Skybird because I thought the opposition in that case was unwarranted. Now I will take the other stance. I have had him dump on me, not because I disagreed but because I didn't agree with him the way he thought I should.

This is his bad habit.

The total freedom thing? Well, Steve, you simply did not see that certain inner contradiction in your thinking, and were angry that I put the finger into that wound.

I do not chnage mind or alter my opinion just to do somebody favours. I also do not respect a different opinion for the mere sake of respecting a different opinion. Opinions are not respectable in themselves - the reasons behind them are what makes them respectable, or not. I respect a different opinion if the other can explain reasonably, not just by making random and arbitrary speculations, why he comes to his differing conclusions. An opinion itself means little to me, at worst it is an annoyance reality greets me with - as a realist I take note of its exitence, and that'S it. Wheter or not people can explain their opinion without entangling themselves in illogical contradictions or flawed information - that is what it was about. u_crank claims to be this thing, while by what I take from his other comments indicates he his quite something different. Many people do not want to be labelled as what they seem to behave at, or do not want to be held responsible for the consequences of the positions they take. And you did ignore certain self-destructive implications of your position back then, when you and me collided. You were not able to resolve it until the very end of the story. Well.

I was not convinced by you two. If that equals that I "dumped on you", either you or u_crank: I have occasionally changed my mind in the past, and I said that in forum posts, and sometimes it was due to something said in this forum, sometimes it was due to "life" and may have taken a bit longer than just from one day to the next. I also sometimes went wrong, or attacked in unacceptable ways. I repeatedly admitted to that then, and were due I apologised then. But that was when I was forced to see my wrong, or was convinced of new input forcing me to change my former views, or I realised all by myself that I behaved bad.

But do not expect me to just do favours, opinion- or apology-wise.

And while the obvious rethoric counterstrike is inviting after the above sentence: don't . Just don't. Just leave it in the context I said it in.