What I typed was very productive and presents an opposite viewpoint that Juggler seemingly insulted with his post. It read very much as a "you're a pansy if you do any of these things I don't like" and normally I don't think Juggler acts this way but I had to counter his post with a viewpoint that many others share. I know many that strive to be better pilots by NOT doing anything he suggests on that list, because it limits you to only one way of flying, and only one way of furballing.
Had you thought of that? Before I posted? Maybe I made you think about it a little more than your first read-through.
Honor is many things to many people... But calling people pansies and ladies because they climb from a fight (implying they have a plane that can outclimb the enemy) when it is wise and just to climb from a fight?
I don't see that as all-that-honorable, so you can see my point of view.
EDIT: Let me say I don't have anything against Juggler. I simply cannot agree with what he's posted and the implied meanings behind it. Dicta Boelke was a set of rules to survive in combat, to win, to fight. It was a mantra for victory. Juggler's is nothing of the sort. It does disservice to the originals... A number of people on these forums take those originals seriously.
You assume he implied meaning behind it. I took it as a "my personal code of honor" post.
If I'm nose on, you turn nose on nose with me, then you're going to get a face full of tater. I do that because I've learned that, as an admitidly pessimistic rule, people will HO 99% of the time. I didn't feel insulted or anything, I didn't feel it was a "my way is the only right way to play" type of post.
And while it was productive, I grudgingly give you that, it wasn't JUST productive. You seemed to be trying to belittle and and make irrelevant, JUGgler's post. How are you any better if you say "no, your post is wrong. Thats all there is to it"?
And finally, no you didn't make me think any further. As someone who usually ignores any and all rules when its expedient and increases the chances of my survival, I usually do consider both sides of the argument.
Edit: nothing against you personally, you just often seem to come off as sounding a touch pedantic, perhaps even a little bit snobbish as if you think the other guy is slow for not seeing your point of view.
