keeping my word for Salty

There can be no pride in pounding on someone already so battered and bloody, no matter that he doesn't seem to realize how beat up he is.Or another way to look at it, there seems little point in continuing to blaze away at someone who obviously no longer has his wits about him. He's probably just a lonely old man craving attention and relief from boredom. You should feel sorry for him. He tries to make it seem like his avoidance of discussion of his ideas is just a debate tactic, but clearly he has lost the ability to engage in meaningful discussion. I think he's merely parrotting ideas and terminology burned into his mind during his adademic career, but which he's no longer capable of examining critically or even describing. No one takes him seriously - let him be.--Percy