On 13/01/08, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: >Everybody has jumped on Polyhead for supposedly threatening violence >(how's he going to do it from the other end of the internet) and in >response they are all threatening violence against him. You want to >ban one person for this but not the others. The response to his post >has been ridiculous. Nobody in their right mind could suppose he was >serious about it (any more than calls to waterboard him are treated >seriously) - he was just being a dickhead, and only slightly more >insensitive than many of the rest of us are at times. > >The correct response is either to ignore him, or to laugh at him. But >to treat that post with the po-faced seriousness people have done is >frankly as pathetic as the post itself.
Interesting. I think people will react as and when their sociological backgrounds and upbringing will allow. You can't deny that, or really even alter it. It exists and you have to either accept it as part of a multi-cultural aspect, or not. For my part I cannot accept perceived threats against children, and I made my feelings plain WRT saying that such posts have no place on this list, and that will either change or it won't, and if it doesn't, and it continues, then I always have the option to walk away. Frankly, I think there are forums for analysing the traits of sociopaths, but it is not really here, so I'll try not to add more to it. Peace, baby. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
