Reply To: The AZ thread – discuss the shidduch “age gap”

AZ – you have once again succeeded in annoying me greatly. I think that you are only interested in making this about winning the debate and that you do not care even slightly who is actually right. Which reminds me why I completely wrote you off the first time through.

While you may find it stimulating to treat this as a debating competition, where the winner is the one who lasts the longest without getting frustrated and is the last one to say “I give up talking to the wall”, I have no such interests. I am not saying my piece because I am trying to frustrate you into giving up – it is because I believe you are completely wrong and are just plowing along with your eyes closed.

So now, if we are to truly make this a discussion with give and take answer me this: Do you or do you not understand that what you are proposing is (or can turn into) a severe form of sheep-herding (i.e. mass manipulation)? Do you or do you not agree that this is – in and of itself – a harmful thing to do?

Note that responding to these statements does NOT in any way mean that you are abandoning your cause, nor will I use cheap tactics such as those that I have seen here to make it seem so. You may still believe that it is worth the cost due to other factors. But I will not allow you go without stopping to think about the fact that there is a cost.

After that, I will be glad to reiterate my position. However, at this point I am conscious that you are deliberately ignoring all reason that is contrary to your own thinking. Your gutter-style debating tactics do not fool people into believing your words. Continuing those tactics will leave you without opponents to talk to, though.