I can see your point but I don't always tend to back down just because someone or many got offended by what I had to say. In a case such as the dorito and burger incident i would have simply stated if you don't like my opinion too bad but it's in a sense the truth. People are waaaay too sensitive these days to even take constructive criticism and that tends to bug me enough to want to be honest more often even if it bothers them because sometimes people simply need to be told the truth even if it bothers them.

Of course there are times when "digging in" is pointless or worthless and then you simply walk away from that argument and move on. of course this is just my way of seeing things and may not agree with everyone else's way of handling these situations.

I see by the time we were posting at the same time.

We are often told of the difference between man and other animals.  Of course the critical one is our intelligence and reasoning power.  When people lash out like that, they have basically reverted to animal instincts and put all intelligence on the back burner.

You see that often on places like du.org.

Yeah, but lots of people seemed to hold the belief that I shouldn't have interfered with how a parent raises a child...  I learned from it, apologized to the guy and moved on.  

Don't look now Doc

Yea, but then who are you going to believe?  A proven liar?  Some still think that Clinton "did not have sexual relations with that woman", so you can fool some of the people all of the time.