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Where is the RESPECT?
- Thread starter OnGoing
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Quote from ARogueTrader:
Or maybe you are too civilized then....being a foreigner.....for the cowboy mentality of many Americans.
Couldn't resist, could you?
No matter that some of the most rabid and vicious diatribes on ET are from posters of various nationalities who hate America, or that there isn't fair reason to automatically assume a cantankerous poster is American... but then again you probably just said that to stir controversy and get attention as usual, so all I'm doing is granting your wish here.
"As a man speaketh in his heart, so is he."
The freedom of an anonymous message board allows people to show their true selves without repercussion. In some cases this a good thing. In many others it's an awful and ugly sight.
You take an enormous amount of satisfaction that you were able to "leave the necessity of humanity," communicate "without respect" with other human beings, and free yourself "from the need to be nice" - only because you were protected by the anonymity of cyberspace. People swear and interact with other human beings everyday, in the real world, face-to-face, with utter contempt and disrespect for each other. That you take pride in being allowed to treat total strangers horribly only because you're protected by the shield of the internet says two things:Quote from TradeOff:
The reason I'm posting on this is because I had a very unique experience happen online.
- we had a global forum structure with no moderators - anyone could say and post ANYTHING they wanted.
What happened was... the best I can sum it up... we... shifted into some kind of primordial state - we went back it seems - way back deep within our mental and emotional recesses of our civilility or our humanity as we understood it and ourselves.
It was an extremely rare instance and moment in time - to have people at their most basic - being able to say and post ANYTHING.
It was as if we were all thrown back into time to cave dwellers (if there were such a thing) yet we had our computers and keyboards to communicate with each other most directly.
It truly was a global/primal situation with each thought, concern and cause being represented with no limits or constrictions being imposed on us.
- it was astonishing, our leaving all the neccesity of humanity - just getting down to the origin of our existence. There was no more need to be nice, you could just say what you REALLY thought X 30 people plus visitors.
You would have had to be there to understand what people are really made of, when there is no requirement for expression of thought to be made within legal bounds or moral obligations.
We became some kind of... primative tribe... each of us representing our own interests. There were raw human emotions, stripped down mental processes for each to see others in an environment that was set back 1000s of years - even to the beginning of time - to survive or die with no more than each of our own wits and understanding of life itself.
but try to imagine a setting with deeper dimensions than just this message board has (there was a rating system for each post and many other such features) that was literally a free for all - then you might get a picture of what a place would be like that truly was without "respect" as well as without many other things.
1) You're a coward.
2) You actually yearn for the "freedom" to be able to treat others maliciously, and given the opportunity to do so, you will. In other words, you're psychotic.
Your post, if it is to be taken seriously, portrays you as the type of person who, if absolved from personal responsibility via the elimination of laws and penalties, would commit the most heinous acts and revel in them.
An image of you in a black SS uniform Sieg Heil-ing your image in the mirror then perusing your videotapes of Auschwitz, Rwanda, and, probably, "Bumfights," comes to mind.
You're a closet sadist who just outed himself.
Quote from darkhorse:
Couldn't resist, could you?
No matter that some of the most rabid and vicious diatribes on ET are from posters of various nationalities who hate America, or that there isn't fair reason to automatically assume a cantankerous poster is American... but then again you probably just said that to stir controversy and get attention as usual, so all I'm doing is granting your wish here.
"As a man speaketh in his heart, so is he."
The freedom of an anonymous message board allows people to show their true selves without repercussion. In some cases this a good thing. In many others it's an awful and ugly sight.
dh.....
Did you mean?: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:.....
(Proverbs 23:7)