Dear Mr. Opinion,

You have been constantly demoralising the readers of this forum, sowing despair but offering no solutions. Having given up on Victory, is all you are aiming for now is the booby-prize of being able to say "I TOLD YOU SO"?

Yuyutsu,

I have degrees in the Arts things like history, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, philosophy, etc. which makes me ideally placed to work things out.

Anybody with my background could do the same.

But unfortunately there aren't that many people like me who have four degrees in four different fields.

So looks like you're stuck with me. Like it or lump it.

Hi Yuyutsu,

Yes, don't worry about our resident troll, our own village idiot who is up himself - always a source of exasperation.

My suggestion is to avoid him, keep away from him and the wall he is chained to, let him fling his waste at some other unsuspecting passer-by.

Joe

Yuyutsu,

Keep in mind that Foul-Mouth is jealous of me because he wants to be the one with all the Arts degrees in things like history, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, philosophy, etc.

I'm sorry it never worked out for you Foul-Mouth, but there's really no need to be bitter about it.

To Mr Opinion-

I think the only option for Australia's defense is dirty bombs and perhaps later atomics- used in a scorched earth defense- Roman's salting the earth. We can't defend against bloated China with conventional weapons.

I think perhaps Mr Opinion sees himself as a tough realist. He sees people presenting Idea's- Option A's around but see them as impractical loose thinking lacking meaning in a broad sense- a faulty reality - so he drops his response through to Option B- like children's blocks- matching the shape to the hole- show the effect that relates to the cause. His hope perhaps is that in challenging bad thinking people will step up to the challenge- in this perhaps he shows faith in their essential goodness.

Good results happen from good actions and good thinking- not from naive hope. Nothing comes without sacrifice.

Emmanuel Kant too believed in robust principle.

In a sense- as do we all- Mr Opinion perhaps courageously emulates what he sees as the best principles- but the actor and the audience see things differently.

Mr Opinion wants people to prove him wrong when he says "I told you so"- because that would stop the nightmare reality unfolding.

Canem Malum,

Having Arts degrees in each of history, sociology and anthropology means that I have been trained as a critical thinker who can work out why things happen in the world of people.