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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Solon who wrote (22448)9/4/2005 6:11:27 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
Let's try to separate the many points in your post- which was full of good things to discuss (if you wouldn't mind) and deal with just this one issue:

"I DO think that circumstances allow people to express their feelings and values more honestly on a BB than at their work."

Would you agree that you can express feelings and values without attacking someone else? If you can agree to that, would you agree that if you want another person to actually pay attention to your feelings and values you had better express them politely, or at least not in attack mode? A therapist might listen to someone in attack mode, and pay attention (maybe, they are at least being paid) and a family member might if they loved the person in question, but no one else is going to pay attention to a person who is having a hissy fit. What you pay attention to is the fit, not the substance of it.

So, unless you are just suggesting that the net is a place for therapy (and it may very well be, but then that leads me to say that it isn't my obligation to play therapist for everyone who wants to vent), then successful transmission of feelings and values probably requires a little self control.

Let's try to hammer out where we disagree on this one small issue.
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