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Originally Posted by OBW
Meanwhile, too much resources have gone into defending what should have been praised by all. It is the encouragement of one or two that has kept him trying to get back in one place or the other. Unless his demeanor is suddenly very different, he will fail again and again because he thinks it is just happenstance that he got ejected. But so far he has proved that there is a standard and that he has failed to measure up. And such a low standard it is. Failing to meet it is failure indeed.
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Maintaining civility is pragmatic. Talk of measuring up to a standard, "failure indeed", etc., is not pragmatic -- it's religion.
And some of us left religion, and aren't here for it. I wonder if that's acceptable to you...