Name-calling is ill-mannered, and it changes no minds

Name-calling

is ill-mannered, and it changes no minds

Thank you for printing the various

responses to the recent SPLOST vote. All were

interesting; some I agreed with; others, I did not.

What

disturbs me is the tone of many of the letters and

columns. Because an opinion differs from your own does

not make that opinion idiotic. Tossing around insults

such as "Neanderthals who live in Fayette

County," "tax-cutting ideologues," and

"the only county around dumb enough to reject the

sales tax" do little to change anyone's point of

view.

After all,

we live in a democratic country where each person is

entitled to his own opinion. Name-calling is not needed.

(And personally, living in the South of that country, I

like to think we were raised better than to resort to

it).

Suzanne

Sports

Peachtree City

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