Reply #191: oh for crying out loud [View All]

[thinkingwoman]

Um, trying reading the line of posts again.

I posted this:

"BTW, I'm generally against the death penalty, but I'd pull the switch myself on this one. It's not about revenge. But it's a mute point anyway given the rate of executions in CA."

That is my opinion.

You responded with this:

"I feel abused by your willingness to pull the switch. Claiming the right to kill others feels fairly abusive to me."

I responded with:

"I feel abused by your melodrama, which reduces a serious topic to startling silliness. As someone who has actually experience abuse, I find a claim to feel abused by someone's opinion is nonsense."

And now you say:

"So you mock the pain the death penalty causes me? This isn't "your opinion" anymore than my assuming to say the abuse you suffered was a good thing would be "my opinion". The death penalty abuses me, there's no other description for it."

and...

"If I accused you of being melodramatic over your descriptions of your abuse you'd possibly hit the alert key, correct? Why? Would you feel abused by my opinion?"

First of all, I've never hit the alert key about any post. I appreciate that DU has one but I'm a grown up and I have a thick skin, something I think more people should acquire in this day and age.

Secondly, I did not mock you. I disagreed with you and felt your overheated emotional reply to my post was over the top.

Thirdly, yes, in fact, my post IS merely my opinion, whether you like it or not.