[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...Kirk I clarified to Cherie exactly what I meant that desensitisation to human beings is apparent with this because otherwise the situation now would not be happening and the crisis would never have reached crisis scenario...we all have our own free thoughts and our own free opinions and we take our own ownership for those...no one is unfairly manoeuvring into a position of defensiveness, no one has the power to do that with a free thought or opinion of anyone else... what you feel and your thoughts are exactly that and no one is making or attempting to make you feel any differently...as I say, we take complete ownership of everything we feel and what our thoughts are...and there are many truths I should say in most things and everyone speaks their own truth...I have nothing more to add to the thread....

Ammi - I do not know what is happening with us two, but if I had been addressing my post to you, I would have quoted you.

Though Cherie posed the question to you in reaction to a post by you, I did not have you in mind at all when I posted my response to her question.

My response to her and what followed was more in respect of other posts which have been on the thread before you even entered the 'debate'.

I saw your perfectly valid explanation to Cherie BEFORE I pressed to submit my post, but did NOT edit my post because there was no need, because in my mind I was not specifically referring to you nor addressing you in my response to Cherie.

If you believe that any of my critical comments were specifically addressed to you because they 'fitted' your own particular viewpoints, then that is at best coincidental, and at worst subliminal on my part.

I am only too aware that we 'all have our own free thoughts and our own free opinions' and I just wish that certain others would remember that when it comes to taking undue and extreme umbrage at some of my thoughts and views.

I have never ever tried to browbeat anyone into changing their opinion, and - as my many comprehensive posts will attest - whether supporting a premise on here, or challenging it, I merely write with sincerity and passion about what I believe, and usually support my opinions with facts and figures in the true spirit of genuine debate.