Sometimes, exchanging comments can be harrowing. Your intention is to engage people into an intelligent exchange of opinion; instead, you are barraged with unintelligent, blatantly fallacious attacks on your person.
Yet we have to tolerate them, since their fallacious, unintelligent opinions are guaranteed by the Constitution. We just hope that we do not stoop down to their level. It seems ignore mode doesn’t work anymore; it only makes these people more fired up and fire more unintelligent comments. It’s a never ending cycle.
Have you ever engaged in a flame war? What’s the feeling of having your person maligned? How do you deal with them?
Some of us know that a personal attack is a fallacy. It is incumbent upon him who knows to evaluate the situation.
Would breaking the whole into parts or vice versa save the day? In other words, just enlighten. The tricky part is is the choice of words. After doing so, one pretty much must abandon the exchange.
In this medium, this is easy to do.
Unfortunately, by abandoning the exchange, the attacker claims victory, however empty it is.