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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (105797)	6/9/2005 9:20:46 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I posted positively to someone I like about what I was doing this summer. That is not an invitation to people to slam me. I would never think that. Would you think that? At a dinner party would you expect a nice conversation between two people to be an opportunity for people to dump on you? I expect people to converse politely, if they are not being attacked by me. If my expectations are not met, I will comment. I certainly cannot make people refrain from rudeness, name calling, and attacks, but I CAN try to change it, and I will. Let me make this very clear, because perhaps our life experiences are so different that this is foreign to you, or others. When I post to Grainne about a vacation, or what I bought at the grocery, I don't expect to be attacked by someone else for having that conversation with Grainne. If people cannot refrain from being negative, I think I can blame them for it. I think people are responsible for attacking people out of the blue, when all those people are doing is chatting. So no, I'm not going to take it up with me, because I didn't violate me. I was having a nice conversation, and I'm not going to blame me for that. I ought to be able to have a nice conversation without being attacked. And if I can't, I will blame people, but I will blame the attackers. I don't blame the victims of rapes, muggings, or other crimes either. I think people probably ought to be able to go about their business, and be sociable, without fear of attack, in 3d, and on the internet.