At 01:59 PM 8/17/2002 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > >Well, it's a bad thing if the emotion prevents you from seeing valid >objections to your position, or leads you to treat others so as to >engage *their* emotions negatively. This is your "goes too far" case >I believe. > >If it just leads you to work hard at the argument, then I guess that's >good. In a word, I agree. Passionately. :-)