If you review this individual's posts on this subject over the last
few days, a trend becomes obvious - his intent IS to upset and annoy.

Nope.

My intent is to offer a balancing opinion (I am intitled to that..???)
My intent is to offer a bit of modern thinking to oppose the
old gaurd "will not change to the end" crowd. My intent is to
offer proof and evidence to counter emotional bleeding
heart tactics.

If you are upset and annoyed, instead of genuinely inspired to think
further about the issue, then perhaps you should take a good long
look under your bed and make sure that you are operating from
anything less than true, honest feelings and ideas, and not
"I HAD TO DO IT, AND SO SHOULD YOU!!!!" mentality.


He thrives on confrontation,

no, I will just not back down when ganged up on by "you do
as your told and quit questioning your betters & elders!" tactics.

Not intellectual enough to make his
point by rational arguement,

i've done so and supported proof, and got EMOTION and
"feeling" in return instead of logical arguments. The few times
a PCTA type attempted to use a counter argument, it was so
weak and thin I blew holes in it quickly. Of course, soon
the real direct personal character attacks came.... "lazy",
"stupid", "moronic", etc...

now, WHO has the lack of intellect to make a point with a
rational argument?

he resorts to name calling

if THAT isn't the pot calling the kettle black!

And he knows that the "nazi" thing
works - so he keeps on with it - it's his gig.

you are correct. It made an excellent analogy that
struck home and made a concept clear. It's called
using examples to support an idea.

try it instead of just dodging the issue or telling
NCTA people to "shut up and do what you're told,
you're lazy, just do it, it's simple, do what we tell
you because only WE know what's best for you!"

You're turn-around tactic won't work on the
rational among us. The ONLY people it will
strike home with and find comfort with is the
small portion of the ham society that makes up
the PCTA crowd, and those people i'm not really
interested in reaching because they are so die-hard
CW testing lovers that they are not reachable.
The ones I am reaching are the other undecideds
out there and the ones that know they do not
have enough information to make thier own
decision and thus look further.

And you guys have done a really good job
of showing that the ONLY one common
basis for keeping the CW test alive is
that YOU had to do it, and it's just plain
not fair if future generations do not have to.

I don't think you won them over, but keep talking;
you're helping MY cause.

thanks!

Clint
KB5ZHT