I can't figure out if you prefer war or peace.Hell, there'd be no war or conflicts.
Peace, obviously. But that's never a realistic hope. That's my point.Synth said:I can't figure out if you prefer war or peace.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/respectHibiki said:It's not about dancing with your bitter enemies.
It's about doing just sucking it up and ignoring them.
I'd lime that if this were PA and it didn't look horrible on this forum standard..The amount of disrespect going on in a thread about respect is insane. Is it so hard to just bite your tongue sometimes? That's all the moderating staff is trying to say here. Don't post every single thought that pops into your head. Pointing fingers isn't a good thing to do, but if you wander through a lot of the threads you'll find two different types of people posting in them. There are those who want to actually discuss the subject matter in at least a halfway constructive way, while there are others who are only posting in the thread because they want to outright attack someone's point of view, or try to be cute or funny by making comments in a sarcastic manner again just to attack the opposite point of view. I would hope that those people who post in that manner know that they do, and can make a mental check and say maybe I shouldn't be such an ass to so and so. Maybe if I present my argument in a non-confrontation format where my points don't consist of nothing but unfounded bashing of another's opinion, or attacks on their spelling accuracy, they won't come back at me with hostility, and we can have a reasonable discussion.
Respect goes two ways, you don't get it unless you give it.
But this is just the thing. It isn't about getting along, its about not dragging everyone else down with you because you don't like someone. Whether you like someone and just disagree with them or hate them with a burning passion doesn't give you the right to say whatever comes to mind no matter how insulting it may be. If it's inappropriate you shouldn't be saying it regardless of if you think its your right to say.I can understand that, but expecting everyone to get along all of the time isn't very realistic. There are going to be quarrels, and I feel that the right to express an opinion as strongly as you see fit (Note: I'm not saying you should flame) is a necessary one.
And obviously the answer is anarchy right? I mean if we have no right to judge one another, what's the point. You see no problem with our rule, only that we can't enforce it. You have always felt this way about the way we run things, and this is a real, real bad place to bring it up.Respect... its a two way street ya kno? Mods do the same things from time to time, not to mention favouritism and targeting of certain forum members, before you start telling the community about respect how about teaching the people that actually enforce it.
No offense to any of the forum staff, but I just don't think that common decency needs to be enforced, and I don't exactly see who there is that can correctly judge it. Slight shades of rivalry/opposition taint a lot of the posts here, it's always been like that, ever since I joined. Thing is, punishing and singling one person out and punishing them for a single time when there's a back catalogue of history just does nothing but make people feel victimised and angry. It doesnt help the situation, I've seen plenty of mods take part in it too, over the years of course.
The big problem being, you can always respect the person, but you cant always respect their opinion. It's hard to disassociate people online with their opinions, because, that's prettymuch the only way you know them.
I'm in no way saying that this "respect" rule is a bad idea, it's just I don't see how you're gonna "enforce" respect. This place needs to lighten up at times.