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i have learned so much from this forum, i'm happy to have associated with the amazing people here.
sometimes i'm a nutjob, other times i'm neutral, but with every debate you simply cannot help but respect the passion and intense emotion that is brought to the table. sometimes there rancor, sometimes it gets wild, and boy do we have some characters here, but thats why we always come back, right guys?
whether we're left or right, up or down, gay or straight, we're all one big family, and we keep coming back for more.
leave it to me to go on a love and peace tirade after a bowl of cheerios
I don't believe I have ever experienced so many hateful and intentionally demeaning posters on any forum ever.
Very seldom is anything about debate, or even legitimate arguments,
its become "I am right, you are wrong and stupid".
Actually sort of sad, the lack of civility.
I agree to a point. A good deal of decent people avoid the political forum, and I know a few who left cd getting the wrong taste in their mouth once to often over that kind of behavior. I doubt highly that any blog out there is immune. The internet is the place to exist without consequences of any kind if you'll did deeper into the mentality. When I come across these characters, I cannot help but empathize with (most) mods charged with policing grown children. That chore is largely thankless, and maybe CD ought to declare a mod appreciation day hahahaaa.
As for the OP-- I usually go out of my way to hear out all sides fairly, but a tipping point for me is hateful behavior that prematurely speeds up a conclusion of the opposite. Unacceptable anywhere in my life, even online, and thank goodness for the ignore feature.
I rarely look at the world in terms of absolutes. I do not believe any ideology package is perfect, or that they can achieve one size fits all. I think more in terms of appropriate tools applied to a properly defined problem. People selling their self imposed political box all the time are empty handed to my taste. I'm not in this forum to sell something, but approach it more along the lines of accumulating and sharing a larger mass of insight to navigate the endless shades of gray.
I'm curious if anyone here has been influenced by something somebody else said in a post here on city data. If you have, please tell us why and what was said. Also describe how it changed your particular view on that issue.
I have been discussing in forums like this for ten years, and in that time i have moderated some of my views by learning from those on the other side of an issue. I'm always open to a different view as long as the person can present a good case and not turn it into a duel of words and gotcha politics.
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