Is it illiteracy, laziness, or just an inability to think?

calling it laziness is missing the point ted. it is obvious what your ONE real point is and this is what i imagine all these responses are addressing. be pleased you are getting ANY responses after your uncalled for rudeness last time i saw you.

I think most likely laziness. I try to read the whole thing and stay on the actual subject that the OP intended.

Thank you for posting this topic. Now I realize that any response I make to a discussion you have posted is going to be critiqued completely changes my previous impression of you as I myLot member. I am not illiterate nor lazy. I respond/comment to a discussion as I see fit. For me posting on myLot is an enjoyable past-time NOT an exam to be corrected for content by a pseudo intellectual. I can assure you I will not be responding to any of your subsequent postings.

It is a common problem with people. Even myself has fell into the trap. You read something, and half way through, you get offended by something and react without reading the other half. When I started building websites 12 years ago, I was told to keep it short and to the point because people do not like reading anything which is too long. You need to grab people attention and don't bore them with the details. People are only interested by their own interests. They don't really care about what you think, unless it is offensive to them.

Sometimes "all of the above"...? Just to prove I read beyond the subject line I have to comment on your last sentence...lol... It really annoys me when people obviously only read the title and maybe the first couple lines before responding. I'd say that's laziness with a bit of illiteracy thrown in for good measure, in my view. I'm afraid our society is making us unable to think outside of the buzz words and catch phrases. We now live in the world of Twitter where everything is abbreviated or otherwise shortened, including our thoughts. Annie

Simply put, it's all about emotion. People who hold certain types of beliefs on political issues cannot discuss them without emotion. So, if you try to discuss the issue of gays in the military, you won't be able to enumerate logical points and have them debated. For those on the left, the issue involves the word "gay". They can't see beyond that. I don't doubt the depth of their emotions. Every part of their political philosophy is based on a victim system. All issues come down to victims and victimizers. They feel a sort of guilty obligation to better the plight of the victim. Any suggestion that any group of victims don't have more rights than other, less-victimized groups is going to be met with immediate outpourings of emotion, accusations of cruelty and cold-heartedness on your part and a denunciation of you and anyone else who doesn't view the entire situation from a completely emotional view. The biggest problem with many of the policies that liberals enact to fix all the problems of the victims is that they usually make the situation of the victim much worse than it was before they enacted their solution. The other problem, of course, is that in their constant defense of victims and all those rights of victims, they strip rights from others. That is decidedly unconstitutional and just trading in one set of victims for another.

you mean... you mean... you mean that they actually have to READ the discussion? Why, that might change their minds!

When you start 50 discussions per day, just be happy that people even bother to respond and give you pennies. I see some folks don't get any responses.

Greetings :) I honestly think you can't really generalize. We do have to take note that there are people from other countries that don't really practice the English language as often as you and me do. I usually try to respond uniquely and not generically in a discussion because, I believe if I answer generically is like not responding at all. Taking note of how things go, I don't think we should really judge them. At the end of the day, mylot is the one that judges them for their answers. Some go for quantity senseless "no brainer" answers and some go for a few quality answers and the very lucky ones give both quantity and quality. Have a nice day :)