Well, that's the key difference. The remaining participants' stance is "I said nothing wrong, but let's drop the argument"/"Okay, I'll stop calling you evil nazi whores for the moment, since I'm tired of arguing (But I'm thinking it really, really hard)" So the argument's not over, just paused for their leisure.
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Date: 2008-07-09 12:35 am (UTC)Well, that's the key difference. The remaining participants' stance is "I said nothing wrong, but let's drop the argument"/"Okay, I'll stop calling you evil nazi whores for the moment, since I'm tired of arguing (But I'm thinking it really, really hard)" So the argument's not over, just paused for their leisure.