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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2780804, member: 76194"]*PS: what you call a "firestorm", I call healthy discussion. Nowhere in my posts am I angry or do I take your claims personally. I disagree with a lot of what you say, and agree with some of what you say. When I disagree, I give examples of why I disagree, and I do have an open mind towards being proven wrong or corrected. Otherwise why bother discussing things?</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm actually rather enjoying this. It's not often in real life one can have an argument or discussion regarding classical history and parallels to modern society. Most people's understanding of ancient history is so basic that the best they can come up with is gross generalizations. I find this thread quite refreshing for a change.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>* One thing though, I will not discuss current politics as that is against the rules. Frankly, anything within living memory is off limits to avoid that issue (so in this thread I won't go past the 1920s to draw on for specific examples).</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2780804, member: 76194"]*PS: what you call a "firestorm", I call healthy discussion. Nowhere in my posts am I angry or do I take your claims personally. I disagree with a lot of what you say, and agree with some of what you say. When I disagree, I give examples of why I disagree, and I do have an open mind towards being proven wrong or corrected. Otherwise why bother discussing things? I'm actually rather enjoying this. It's not often in real life one can have an argument or discussion regarding classical history and parallels to modern society. Most people's understanding of ancient history is so basic that the best they can come up with is gross generalizations. I find this thread quite refreshing for a change. [B]* One thing though, I will not discuss current politics as that is against the rules. Frankly, anything within living memory is off limits to avoid that issue (so in this thread I won't go past the 1920s to draw on for specific examples).[/B][/QUOTE]
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