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Much preferable to leave personalities out of it. However, on any topic, at some point - repeating misinformation, data that's been debunked, logical fallacies, or outright lies... and refusing to examine whether you might be incorrect... begins to shift the discussion from a collegial one to something else. If we are all interested in truth, fairness, and educating ourselves when possible and others when we have the means to do so... if we are all exhibiting a collegial approach to discourse... then I'd say personalities, or individual faults, do not need to come into play. We all have faults - and it's only polite to ignore them as much as possible. But when they impact the discussion, detour it fruitlessly, or even derail or stall it entirely... then our quirks become germane. I can't claim to know all there is to know about the characteristics and history of every variation on economic systems. But I do know a good bit. Enough to recognize an unfortunate level of ignorance on the topic when it is so glaringly presented, and insistently repeated. And when it threatens to derail the discussion.
Speaking of which - maybe there's a better sub-forum in which to discuss forum etiquette. Would you like to ask the moderators to send this discussion there?
Here I am trying to drag the topic bask to the thread title, presenting several different possible sub-topics related to it, and your post seems you want to keep dragging it off.
As to forum for forum etiquette discussions, I've never had a need for them. Seems I'm pretty polite and of general good mood, and not taking Internet forum posts all that seriously.
If you want to ask the mods to do something, that's fine. Have at it.