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Mythic Evil Lincoln wrote:

Which brings us to another forum meme:

Pop-up reasoned debates in threads where they don't belong!

The problem here is that, without a flame-bait title, the participants tend to be quite reasonable, and the debate of high quality... which makes it that much worse that it must be quashed for being off topic, or moved to its own thread which will inevitably have a flame-bait title. And that will be a magnet for trolls, which ruins the quality of the discussion!

For example, the last few posts could be wrangled into a spinoff thread entitled "NO SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE BLORCH" and well, would it be as comparatively polite as it was here?

There are ways to phrase such a discussion without being flame bait. Especially since sex before marriage is only a piece of the "sex - too in your face, or not in your face enough" discussion sidetrack that occurred here.

I exist only to contradict you! Also, why haven't you returned my calls? Mythic LE Ulysses S. Grant says you're not going to be joining us for the Mythic Contradictory Alignment Famous People of the 1800s Potluck next week. Mythic Good Robert E. Lee is bringing his famous potato salad! How can you miss that? Important date at the theater? ZING!

How come I never get invited to these things?