I feel a storm brewing

A straw-man is NOT offering other relevant but parallel examples in order to develop a rhetorical concept. A straw-man IS advancing an unrelated and irrelevant argument in order to seemingly refute the original position. You are using the logical fallacy of a straw man as a straw man. You offered up issues of sexual privacy. I broadened the discussion to other related issues of privacy including sex. Then you got indignant about my non TBM upbringing. That clearly pushed a button with you. That is your issue not mine but I certainly didn't intend to push a button. I like to discuss these issues. I find it useful. But it is only useful so long as we can disagree. Otherwise this becomes some exercise in making each other feel good about our opinions.

I said:

Parents need to be able to share about their kids.

To which you said:

Well shit, there's a time and a place for almost everything.

In my twenty years of marriage I don't see a lot of room for exceptions if you want to truly have a relationship of trust with your spouse. Once a single exception is made trust tends to go out the window. I will offer that your example of a kids sex life is quite vague. It could range from the kid touching himself to the kid engaging in risky behavior. If the issue at hand was completely benign I wouldn't feel a need to share and could easily justify such actions to a reasonable spouse. But a benign issue also wouldn't require privacy if it was truly benign. But I am digressing back in to the weeds.

I am completely comfortable in my disagreement with you and I don't redact or withdraw from anything I said. What will you do with that? What further action can you take? You've made a lengthy issue of it all ready. What other recourse do you have? I say, respectfully, you are wrong. There it is. What more can I tell you? I disagree. I hope that is clear. And I needn't argue my point any further than I have. If, for you, having the last word is somehow equivalent to having the correct position I'll grant you that. Cheers. And I sincerely hope that next time we cross reddits it won't be in acrimony.

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