cutting up a post

[Douglas Pollard]

    Been reading the fcc Internet thread as it has evolved and have 
noticed a trend.   A person goes to the trouble to write a half page 
post that is interdependent on ever statement and line in its make up to 
make a point.   Then someone else chops it into individual lines or 
statement and writes a scathing comment on each part of it.  This is 
only a method to discredit the writer.   It is not a comment on the 
original post but instead a misleading,  attack that adds nothing of 
substance  to the argument.  Where is the thinking and adding of 
thoughts to a subject, where are the ideas. I find this a laziness on 
the part of the chopper and commenter.   A person with integrity ,it 
seems to me might put on their thinking cap and post their opinion so 
that  all may read both opinions  and make a decision  as to what they 
consider as legitimate.
     You guys do realize that when a person writes something it is 
automaticly copyrighted and no one has a right to change it.  They do 
have a right to comment on it.  This of course is irrelevant in the case 
of what we are writeing here it is worthless so who would take this to a 
court.  
    It may be that by writing here we have agreed that our copyrighted 
work may be published here under creative commons I don't know I have 
not read what we agree to when posting. It would seem common curtisy 
dictates that you not destroy another's work in order to discredit 
him.   This practice promote argument not discourse.                    
                                                         Doug