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I agree: one loses an argument in direct proportion to the volume of the voice used to argue (also when tossing Nazi, fascist, and other such epithets that have lost their true meaning). However, in this case, we have only Wil's version of the incident. I, for one, would be interested to hear his father's recollection.
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Widget wrote:
It's not the point of view that's the problem. It's that his father was screaming it, red-faced, in the middle of his living room. That isn't how "wise" people express their opinions in my family. Is it how they do in yours?
In this case, the medium IS the message. A wise opinion - an opinion to be respected - isn't delivered in a raised voice, accompanied by flecks of spittle and finger jabs, to one's child in a living room during a holiday dinner.
-- Widget
