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Originally Posted by J. Roberts
It's kind of amazing to have a flame war where every response was separated by three months' time.
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That level of bile maintained for that level of time must be indicative of some serious personality issues. Surely by the end of the "probably hand-written" letter you must have had a chance to calm down.
Another odd thing is that back in the day, you had to pay to send the venting of your spleen (rather than it be a minute fraction of your monthly mobile phone contract or something).
I wonder if that investment of time and personal wealth somehow gave it the gilding of a votive offering or sacrifice in the writers head and thus somehow uplifted the unworthy content to something higher.
I do feel that the passing of duels of honour greatly diminished manners. If you called someone a liar you might be called to defend that accusation with your life, it would either curb your bile or hopefully remove you from the gene pool. If someone was willing to defend their opinion with their life, you might be inclined to respect them even though you disagreed and the duel need not actually occur.
Now we can hide behind aliases (or the postal service wrt. to the topic under discussion) there is no disadvantage (or even censure) if you have no personal honour. This is a shame.
Fortunately we have Car Wars so we can at least roleplay in a world where duelling still exists.