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Politics : Support the French! Viva Democracy! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (2702)	8/26/2003 9:25:45 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7841

The, uh, "person" you are talking about just expressed joy at the deaths of 10,000 people. Because they were living in France. Are you really happy to be on that side? Do you think what he said was OK? How would you feel if someone expressed joy at the deaths of something like three WTC tragedies costing the lives of 10,000 people in the US? Because they were Americans. Something tells me you would say a bit more to that "person" than asking him to end his own misery.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (2702)	8/26/2003 9:43:04 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7841

Yes it DOES. People may be emotional, but that is not an excuse, that is simply an explanation. There is no excuse for bad behavior. If you call names, if you say horrible things, if you attack someone's family, if you go after people, and chase them around SI merely to hurl insults or say ugly things, you are responsible and not excused because you are "emotional." I'm sorry for people who can't control themselves, but I don't want to be around them very much, and I certainly wish I had not created a forum where people can act out negatively because they are emotional. I think far from people telling themselves this is "just the internet", people come here to act out the psychodramas they are too afraid to act out in 3d. It's not about the other people- because when you are rude, or act out, it's about you (I use that generically, not in the personal sense), it's not about other people. The only polite thing to do, imo, when engagement is impossible, and people cannot be polite, is to ignore. Meeting bad behavior with bad behavior is simply a descending spiral, leading to extreme ugliness. I wish everyone here would try to keep in mind that when you throw back ugliness, at people who post it, you have produced something equally bad, you have lost any moral high ground you might have thought you had, and no one will pay any attention to you anymore, except people who already agree with you.