[jackvalentine]

> If you want to truly hear the other side, you can expose your opinion as well as separate the issue at hand, being more inviting.

I didn't get the sense he wanted to hear the other side at all, just express his point of view.

By posting in a public forum of course it implies there will be responses but what I got from how you opened your response is an attempt to gain the moral high ground by chastising the above poster before making any points of your own.