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Politics : The Bigot Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skywatcher who wrote (218)	6/28/2004 12:31:20 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 740

You may console yourself that it is not new at all. I have seen even worse. Why there are people here who long to take things off SI, and to get personally,and irresponsibly, involved with people they do not like. Hounding a person on the net is one thing, but finding out their address, and hounding them in real life, is, I think you will agree, really sick. There are people on SI who will do unimaginably nasty things to other posters- but luckily there aren't very many of them, and the only sensible thing to do is ignore them as best we can. Most people in the world are quite nice, and if SI is a rather strange sample, with slightly more awful people than the rest of the world, I think we can blame that on the net, which attracts some very angry people, and gives them an outlet for their anger which they cannot find in the real world.

To: Skywatcher who wrote (218)	7/3/2004 12:48:45 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 740

I thought about this for a while- and if you want to be proactive with people, rather than just ignoring them, why not post a helpful link to them? If I were inclined to post to people who exhibit truly bad behavior on the net (along the lines of the posts you have copied) I would post to them these links- and others like them: front.csulb.edu apa.org I'm not sure you can help people on the net, after all many of the real anger junkies are here to enlarge their problem, and not to solve it, but I guess occasionally you might help someone. Just don't use it offensively- or you are sure to do no good at all, and only play in to the endless cycle of ill will on SI. I'm not sure how you offer much needed help to mean people in a loving manner. I really have not perfected that technique- and I'm not sure I want to.