You know why I don't reply to your obsessive tagging
I know why you're obsessed with not replying to my tagging: because you cannot respond rationally to my questions and criticism. I don't know what you mean by calling my tagging "obsessive", beyond that you're merely trying to vent your chagrin by doing so.
I tag numerous people, and frequently. Is it not etiquette in forums to tag other forum users when mentioning them by name in posts? You know, so as not to be engaged in talking about them behind their backs and unfairly witholding from them an opportunity to become aware of their mention and respond how they may see fit?
As far as I know, no rule is against me mentioning you (or anyone else) in posts, which is an inevitibility whenever I quote your posts. And certainly no rule is against me quoting your posts, right? Is any rule against me mentioning you in posts in which I'm
not quoting you? Do you prefer I, instead, not tag you when mentioning you? And even then, is any rule against me declining to abide by such preference?
I get it: you're a proud leftist, and as such, you imagine yourself entitled to being shielded from hearing or seeing anything that you don't like to hear or see, even in public forums meant for debate. And you have not the slightest scruples against shamelessly mis-characterizing things people say that you don't like to hear as personal attacks against you. Tell you what: you try to find something--some bit of my language--in any of my posts in which I've particulary addressed you or referred to you, something that you'd like to claim is not essentially of the same verbal style and content as I've more or less consistently been using in my denunciations of every other leftist on TOL, such as
@Arthur Brain and
@User Name. If you find anything you'd characterize as such, from within my posts, and would like to send me a link to it and claim that therein I've somehow uniquely, personally attacked you, I'll patiently listen to your complaint. And if I can see that you can make a point therein, I'll not deprive you of a recognition of it.
I'm not gonna respond to you the way you post to me because that wouldn't be healthy either.
You're not coming from a healthy place. You mean to tell me that you would not say the same about me? You would not say I'm not coming from a healthy place?
I said last year that you're not coming from a healthy place.
Oh, then you
would respond to me the same way I post to you, after all. Got it.
you might as well give up on getting replies from me
Why reply to me to tell me you won't reply to me? What could have been a more effective way of telling me you won't reply to me than to have simply, permanently continued on with your already long stretch of not replying to me (which you just now spoiled)? I had already long since gotten the message that you would not be replying to me; I already figured you never would reply to me again, and yet here you are now telling me I figured incorrectly. To tell you the truth, I'm surprised to see that you did not have me set on "ignore".
Thanks for the reply, I guess, but what's it to me whether or not I get replies from you? The point is that, reply or no reply, you consistently demonstrate your inability to respond rationally to any of the questions/criticism I've posted against the things posted by you and those on TOL allied with your worldview.
Now I don't, by saying this, want to be a party to feeding your obsessiveness over taking every thing to be a personal attack against you that is said in denunciation of what you post in the debate forum that is TOL. But I'll say anyhow that in whatever I write in future posts in which I tag your name, I will do so with a consideration of the fact that you seem to want to be thought of as a somewhat fragile person, and I will choose my words accordingly to some extent. For example, a policy of calling you "leftard" is with me akin to wearing a hat; I can easily don it and doff it at will, and it's all just one and the same. And if it hurts your feelings, I'll not call you it, because I have no animosity against you.
On the other hand, annabenedetti, if you really were as fragile as you seem to like to let on like you are, why have you not long since had me on "ignore"? You apparently held out longer than
@Arthur Brain, who just lately told me he had to give up and put me on "ignore", the poor guy.
@User Name's not gonna be putting me on "ignore", I know it. I've been downright merciless to so many of his posts, and yet, oddly enough, it seems to me he never really takes it all too personally.