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To: Rich1 who wrote (23353)	4/4/2002 12:35:02 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 23786

Let's clarify something here. You are right, I didn't step up to defend you. Just like I didn't step up to defend Lost1 two years ago. Arguably, I should have. But, it is my belief that it is wrong for me to step in and take sides on an intra-thread conflict. If it is an outsider, there is no question that I would jump in and defend whoever the threadmember is. I see this as similar to a friend of a couple when the couple is fighting. Sure, it is important to listen to your friends, but it is a mistake to jump in and take sides. The fact is, you are all adults. It is not my responsibility to figure out who is right and who is wrong. Maybe you all think I should have stepped in and mediated the conflict. Well, did it ever occur to any of you that I might have other things on my mind at this particular moment in time? Another analogy that was used the other day in a private conversation is the idea that the thread is equivalent to my home. The argument being that I wouldn't want to be known giving tacit support of abusive people by welcoming them into my home. Well, in real life, this happens all the time. Hell, there is Uncle Harvey who comes to all the family events. I don't like it, but he is part of the family and I have to deal with it. And while Uncle Harvey is in my home, goddamnit, I don't expect my friends to resort to his tactics just because he is an asshole. From my friends, I expect them to rise above the type of behavior that Uncle Harvey exhibits. Smoothsail can attest that Uncle Harvey exists. I just had this conversation with Mrs. McKie's Grandmother on Easter. Everyone in the family dislikes Uncle Harvey. He brings his dogs that bite, he smokes his pipe in the house, he turns the TV on real loud while everyone is trying to talk. Grandma doesn't like it either. But he is part of the family and for better or worse, she knows that she can't change him. She could not allow him in the house, but that would then cause one of her daughters to not come to the family events. And this Easter, Mrs. McKie's sister gave Grandma an ultimatum. Said that either Grandma fix Uncle Harvey or she wouldn't be coming back for any other family events. Wanna guess how Grandma responded to having a gun put to her head? It was more negative than how she reacted to Uncle Harvey's smoking/dog biting/loud TV/general obnoxiousness. So, if you all want to look at this thread as my house, there is your answer. or You can look at this as a little neighborhood park that my house looks over. And I make a little effort to pick up some of the garbage that people not from the neighborhood leave lying about. And I build a bench so that there is a place to sit, and plant a few flowers to pretty the place up. But there ain't no doors or fences around the park. Anybody can come and go. And if two of the neighbors come to the park to walk their dogs and one steps in the crap left by the other's dog and gets pissed about it and starts yelling at the other, is it really my place to jump in and determine who is right and wrong? Is it the guy who didn't pick up his dog's shit? or is it the guy who overreacts to something that wasn't meant to offend? Just make damn sure that if you are the guy that is freaking out because you stepped in the other guy's dog shit, that your dog isn't leaving a pile for somebody else to step in. Clean up your own dog shit folks, this is a park for everyone to use, not my fucking backyard and not my fucking dogs.