The Rod Speed Virus has become quite ubiquitous and its purpose is to
destroy any rational, legitimate, or honest debate among consenting
adults. The virus attacks serious discussions simply inserting offhand
disagreement at paragraph breaks. Every now and then a "real" person
hiding behind the nym of Rob Speed enters the fray and puts some extended
verbiage in place to make the virus seem to be a real person. The proper
actions to deal with the virus are to NEVER respond to it and to closely
edit that to which you do respond (responses of others) so as to trim the
propagation of the virus. It may be necessary to move the discussion to a
new, as yet, un-invaded thread.
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"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers
of society but the people themselves; and
if we think them not enlightened enough to
exercise their control with a wholesome
discretion, the remedy is not to take it from
them, but to inform their discretion by
education." - Thomas Jefferson
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