“I Think That, If We Regularly Engaged in Interactions in Which We Disagreed in a Respectful Way, We Would Over Time Come to Kid Around With Each Other and Become Good Friends Despite Our Differences on the Substantive Questions. I Think That Would Be Just Great. It Would Make Me Very Happy to See Things Play Out That Way.”

Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:

How about Mel Lindauer? Should he be featured?

He adds a lot to the discussion. So I would certainly be happy if we could all enjoy the positives that he brings to the table. But, as you know, he has not been willing to follow the published posting rules of the site. That’s a problem. That hurts us all. That has to be addressed. If that were addressed, then I would 100 percent support the idea of featuring Mel.

And you know what? My strong hunch is that Mel and I would become good friends over time. I don’t think that we would come to agree on all investing questions. But I think that, if we regularly engaged in interactions in which we disagreed in a respectful way, we would over time come to kid around with each other and become good friends despite our differences on the substantive questions. I think that would be just great. It would make me very happy to see things play out that way. I think it would be inspiring to all our fellow community members to see it play out that way. That’s how it should be, in my assessment.

Future Lindauer Pal Rob