Bond... I have never told anyone to refrain from posting. Everyone is giving marmie advice. Yes, I am questioning the advice being given... in shock over some of it at this point.
You asserting everyone has a right to give advice is a bit irrelevant since no one suggested otherwise.
Do you have a right to give advice? Of course you do. Even bad advice. And I have a right to advise on your advice. Advice weighs on advice weighs on advice... This is how thought is refined amongst intelligent people.
Just as everyone is free to offer advice, Bond, people are also free to question that advice. That's how the marketplace of ideas works. One person expresses a thought, the others assess its value in the aim of refinement.
(and no, simply posting a comment "This advice is wrong" isnt' an assessment, its rude, and that's all it is)
You and others sometimes get your feathers all ruffled when anyone challenges your advice or anyone else's. To your mind this is somehow "bad" and needs to stop.
You guys all want everyone streaming advice down the tunnel with no one weighing in on any of it...
This is not how the marketplace of ideas functions I'm afraid. Everyone talking and no one actually taking the time to asses what anyone else is saying means no one is listening.
The fact that I do challenge it just means I am listening and I care.
To my mind its the ones that don't comment you should be worrying about.
That and people who are using an endless stream of fallacies and smokescreens to confuse people... I've seen that on here more times than I've seen a good argument.
Well, I will challenge an idea now and then if I have a mind to. I am not violating policies by challenging the logic behind someone's advice.
I and others on this forum have and do challenge advice from time to time. It's called refining thought.
I apologize in advance if that gets your feathers in a knot.
