who wants hellfire?

[LemmingofGlory]

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002.
"You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar"
You can win people to your side more easily by gentle persuasion and flattery than by hostile confrontation.

I am a “bleeding heart” because I would rather gain a convert rather than burn a heretic?

We prefer to be more independent here. Posters are given enough rope to hang themselves. If they succeed, they're out. If they don't, they can stick around. Most of us have no desire to bring out the training wheels just to bring more people into the fold. Quality > Quantity. That was Pete's point.

I am a “bleeding heart” because I would prefer to give someone food rather than tell him he should go hungry?

Logical fallacy: Bifurcation. You present the problem as having only two solutions. It has at least three: Around here we prefer to teach people to fish rather than give them fish.

I am a “bleeding heart” because I believe that discourse should be polite and civil rather than rude and coarse?

Well, when you say things like this...

This forum and this website also require certain minimum standards of civil behavior. These standards do not include rudeness, disrespect, insults, or self righteous, self-serving comments in the forum posts.

Therefore, I would like to apologize for the contents and tone of the first response that you received, on behalf of myself and likeminded lurkers. It was uncalled for and out of line.

...it really gets people wondering. Not to mention it stepped all over my toes. To imply that Pete violated LL standards when I'd already applauded him is just... wrong. He didn't. I already said so! If you have a problem with a post after I've already given my OK: report the post, e-mail me, PM me, etc. Otherwise, we have gigantic off-topic threads like this one.

I'll again note that for someone who gets upset over rudeness and condescention, you seem to have no problem doing it yourself.

You have to forgive Pete. He is probably young and immature and he “knows not what he says.”

Pete, ... You managed the entire post without being rude or nasty. It makes me proud to believe that I played some small part in your increased maturity.

And now you're a hypocrite. You no longer have credibility with me. Well done!

-Lemming