Rant #1,847: Too Much Talk

The use of the phrase "we agree to disagree" on Facebook or anywhere where there is electronic discourse is a way for people to respectfully reach a point in a discussion where both sides have made there points, neither side is going to budge, and it is a polite way to move on without causing any great damage.

However, I have found that some people believe employing the phrase is a copout.

Others, like myself, feel it is a viable phrase to use when you reach an impasse, when two people are trying to prove their point and there is nowhere else to go with the discussion.

I have been attacked right here on this blog for using the phrase when myself and another person were at loggerheads, and just in case you missed it, I am going to post right here my retort to someone who believes I employed the phrase basically when I could not intelligently answer another person when trying to prove a point:

"Absolutely untrue. I use it when we are at an impasse. Believe what you want to believe, but this is the truth. I wish more people would use it, actually. We are not going to change each other's minds, so why pursue the same tired explanations? 

"Rather than say "F-off," another phrase which has been used by certain people when I say something--including the person you are trying to defend right here--I feel I have gone the high road with all of this. 

"You can accept that explanation or not; it is not going to change my day, nor my use of the phrase that upsets you so much.

"When two people are at loggerheads and a discussion goes on and on and on and on to no one's satisfaction, I feel it is the appropriate phrase to use, if for nothing else than to simply give the other person at least an inkling that it is time to move onto something else."

And yes, that is what I believe, 100 percent believe.

We have become such an angry culture, always trying to prove a point, and we do it endlessly.

Yes, I have done it too.

But I don't do it anymore.

I reach a point, and then I think it is better for all parties to simply end it, and to move on to something else.

This anger cannot be constructive.

I think we all need to take a collective deep breath, and look at whatever is bothering us and not ignore it, but simply count to 10, or even 20.

Me too.

That does not mean we cannot have an adult conversation about various topics.

But once it gets to the "F-off" stage, I think the limit has been reached.

And if you still do not agree with what I am saying, well, I guess we do agree to disagree.

Let's end it at that.