(November 17, 2018 at 9:47 pm)Belaqua Wrote: 3) Insults shut down discussion, they don't accomplish anything but a tiny personal catharsis. In general, they dumb things down.
This is the main reason for me. I enjoy good trash talking and I swear like a sailor (not proud of it, but it's true). But good trash talking goes along with the discussion. The incivility we've seen here lately is generally intended to shut down the discussion.