TK, the cool thing about "opinions" as opposed to "assertions", is that no justification is necessary. Everyone has a right to voice their OWN opinion. When you make assertions, however, you are expected to validate them with research and structure so as not to distract from the core message you are attempting to convey. To do otherwise is best described as obfuscation which I tend to recognize and ignore as insignificant.
You, on the other hand, do neither. You merely search for a message that may, superficially resemble the point you are trying to make. Then you copy (including the entire legacy of possible errors) and paste. Often without attribution or analysis.
The post with which you started this topic is an example of your flawed method. By pasting, in its entirety, the text of an article you lifted from some (undoubtedly internet) source. You also included a prologue and epilogue that was not a part of Captain Ouellette’s original speech. Which, by the way, has been circulating around the www for over a year now. Your careless treatment of another's work tends to undermine the significance of the ORIGIONAL thinking that went into this speech. Also, by bringing these words to bear in order to illustrate a point that was not originally intended, (what was your point, anyway) you have removed them from their intended context and rendered them moot. I believe this to be a subtle form of plagiarism which I find to be completely distasteful. You wouldn't actually be Jayson Blair incognito would you? (Sorry for the obscure reference) I believe your brand of pseudo intellectualism is un-worthy of debate.
Is that clear enough for you?
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