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Originally Posted by O No!:
Originally Posted by A. Robustus:

O,

I frankly don't get your preoccupation with people needing to state something along the lines of "in my own personal opinion, ..." when posting. Everything we type, unless cited to the originating source, is pretty much personal opinion. It's implied, understood and goes without saying, doesn't it? Do you really think any of Uno's (or anyone's) posts would be more pleasant to you if he continually prefaced his opinions??

 

Also, what's the point of telling Uno not to read about and/or comment on something that has a real and everyday effect on everyone's life? The Bible has many, many terrible and odd things in it. If those things didn't reside in the very book that God dictated, they would be rightly looked upon by everyone as obviously terrible and odd. Maybe, if you really think it's good advice for Uno not to read something, you can be his role model and do the same yourself by not reading Uno's posts? It is my personal opinion that doing so is needlessly upsetting to you.

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A., television is rotting your brain. You should throw it away immediately.

 

And rap is NOT music. If anyone likes it that shows they have no taste whatsoever.

 

Vanilla ice cream STINKS! It has no flavor, and if you like it there is something wrong with you.

 

All Republicans are liars! (Thanks Jennifer.)

 

Alabama is so backward the people who live there might as well be living in a third world country.

 

The 9/11 memorials this past weekend are nothing more than a maudlin display of the American people wallowing in their misery.

 

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Now, all of those statements sound pretty confrontational, don't they? Confrontational statements are not condusive to civil debate. If I had said instead, that "IN MY OPINION, TV rots one's brain", or that "TO ME, rap is not music", or "I don't like vanilla ice cream. To me it has no flavor and I can't see how anyone could like it", or, "It's been my experience that Republicans lie", or, "From what I see, Alabama is rather backward. I think there are people in some third world countries who are better off", or, "The 9/11 memorials this weekend were difficult for me. It brought it all back, and I'd rather see people move on and stop dwelling on the horror of that day", it would be clear that I was expressing MY opinion, and that I acknowledge that you might feel differently. It would be obvious that I wasn't proclaiming that I am right and the rest of you are wrong.

 

We usually are dealing with controvercial subjects here, and I believe (HEY! There's that phrase again!) that if we applied the same manners and common courtesy that we were taught in kindergarten, we could have a much more interesting and productive forum, rather than the sandbox it has become lately.

 

 

O,

One of the things we teach children at home and at school is to focus on their own behavior. There's no sense in pointing at someone you don't like and telling them to bend to your own standard. There's even less wisdom in acting out in direct response to other's behavior. We can't change others but we can change our behavior. Perhaps if you want to have a more interesting and productive forum you can start by regularly applying the Golden Rule and worrying less about what someone else is doing.


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