25.06.2010, 13:21
I know it seems childish and silly to a point to actually bring an argument out of what started as discussion, for that I ended up guilty as sin. The whole discussion turned personal and that is what went wrong. ACE is a clever fellow, but when it was mentioned about charts and graphs he went on the defensive, which with all the work he does using charts and graphs can personally be understandable, but no one had directly mentioned his name, only the use of graphs and numbers, Tater was stating that according to the views of the pilots that the P-51's FM doesn't seem to match up to the history. The whole thing of taking every opinion and trashing it with endless quotes is what turned that discussion into a slug fest. The moderator even reminded folks "keep it civil gents 
We're all entitled to our opinions, so don't rebuke each other for it 
" , but yet, people took things to heart like it was a personal stab at them, and used the quote as the weapon of choice, which every man knows, no one likes people to use their own words against them. I agree 110% on what you are saying about discussing the mighty field of FM's with a rational, point-by-point criticism of their opinion in return, and the majority expects that, but the whole discussion got side barred when things went from professional to personal, people went on the defensive, myself included, and for what??? Every single one of us looked like children arguing in a playground, hard to believe I will be 43 yrs old in July, huh?? If people would only learn that everything said is not a direct slap in the face then we could wade through this whole FM thing and not put it in the category of : politics, religion, and FMs!! The final thought, in my OPINION the quote thing is good, but not to the point of re-building someones syntax to justify YOUR OWN opinions. It truly would be nice to discuss the whole FM issue, and be able to state an opinion without the fear of starting a word war.
We're all entitled to our opinions, so don't rebuke each other for it " , but yet, people took things to heart like it was a personal stab at them, and used the quote as the weapon of choice, which every man knows, no one likes people to use their own words against them. I agree 110% on what you are saying about discussing the mighty field of FM's with a rational, point-by-point criticism of their opinion in return, and the majority expects that, but the whole discussion got side barred when things went from professional to personal, people went on the defensive, myself included, and for what??? Every single one of us looked like children arguing in a playground, hard to believe I will be 43 yrs old in July, huh?? If people would only learn that everything said is not a direct slap in the face then we could wade through this whole FM thing and not put it in the category of : politics, religion, and FMs!! The final thought, in my OPINION the quote thing is good, but not to the point of re-building someones syntax to justify YOUR OWN opinions. It truly would be nice to discuss the whole FM issue, and be able to state an opinion without the fear of starting a word war.