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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (88039)11/5/2004 5:05:41 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (5) of 108807
 
I ban people who stalk and harass me, and who like to call names, and act in a manner I think of as equating to those awkward middle school years- when bully boys run the school yards. I do not post to several people who are extremely and outrageously personal and nasty, although I do not wish to list those people, or in any way humiliate them- since I believe their own behavior humiliates them quite enough. I do not post to them, and yet they follow me around and post to me- and they also post about me all over SI, on threads I have never even heard of. I find that inexcusable- and I refuse to talk to people who act in such a way. I think to encourage their bad behaviour in any way would be to condone it- and so I do the best that I can, which is to ignore the people who act in such ways, and condemn the behavior as often as I can. I know the people who do this are convinced they are doing something good, or at least have convinced themselves that the evil they do is justified. I find their behavior very instructive- and try to keep it in mind whenever I might tend to think an end might justify a means (it doesn't). That's all I have to say about it.

The lessons are out there. Whether people learn from them is another matter.

Take care.
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