| TeeHee, I've been singing "Spider Pig" constantly.
 
 Good points above, Ally.  I think there's a fine line between exchanging our opinions and reasons for having them -and- justifying our opinions and defending them with defensiveness.
 
 I think the exchange of our thought process behind opinions is interesting and lets us get to know each other better.
 
 
 The defensiveness is, alas, a human reaction ... and perhaps I'm guilty as any in seeming somehow to challenge the reasonableness of opinions which differ from my own.  I hope we (me included) can keep that kind of thing to a minimum ... but it's only human for it to creep up on us once in a while.
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