I'm sick of these TH "tough guys" who want to fig

BenH · Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:29 am Post subject:

Internet forums (the internet in general, in fact) are a relatively new form of communication that we, as a society, are still adjusting to. Maybe we will never fully adjust. It seems similar to road rage, in a sense - people feel protected in their car, and so swear and gesture and shout abuse at other people in a way that they wouldn't, for the most part, dream of doing if that person was stood right in front of them without the protection of a metal box on wheels.

Forums allow people the anonymity to be rude and abusive to people in a way that, for the most part, I doubt they would be in real life. However, it does afford the opportunity to ask 'stupid' questions, for want of a better phrase, without fear of embarassment.

Double edged sword.
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Craig Swartz · Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 4:43 am Post subject:

Crap, Mork, it sounds like the same old world to me... It's only been recently, during the Age of the Wimp, that someone determined bullies were a bad thing and that everyone should just get along. Deal with them by not allowing them??? Not in most parts of the planet, they usually run the city/country/state/State/tribe. Not too far back, and still SOP in most parts of the world, people actively kill each other because they aren't the same religion- forget the same color.

Detroit may be a cesspool as compared to many parts of the US, but in comparison to New Delhi, Mexico City, or many other large urban/rural areas around the world, it's Utopia as far as safety and security is concerned. All a matter of perspective...

BTW, Mork- have you run across this entrepreneur in Motown yet? Eaten plenty of this in the past, still do the other small game whenever I can.

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