there's a conditioned response that certain words illicit because it's easier for the person the words are directed at to play the "victim" card when "vulgarity" is used.
That's a cheap excuse used by people who tend to be overly offensive to put the onus of their offensiveness on someone else, instead of themselves. Words can cause pain and hurt regardless of their intent, and to refuse to take responsibility for that is nothing more than cowardice.
but really, I'm glad you finally made a special place for yourself where you can feel safe on the internet.
Actually, War, this was created in order to offer people on this forum a safe place to discuss things where they don't have to worry about being personally attacked for their views. Again, if you cannot properly defend your stance or point without resorting to name calling, then your point was weak to begin with because all you're doing is diverting attention away from the topic and targeting the person you disagree with. If you tell someone their point is stupid and baseless then you're really not attacking that person, you're attacking their point. Do you see the nuance there? Of course we're not going to moderate and delete every little barb that someone utters in some attempt to sanitize the internet...use a little more imagination, please.
maybe you should call this section "mnem's experience with Speaker's Corner" then, because calling it "Speaker's Corner" is a mockery
I'm calling it Speaker's Corner because that is where my experience was had. And if you feel as though it is a mockery...great! But just because you feel so doesn't mean that I am going to or should rename this because obviously my intent is not to recreate the real Speaker's Corner, as here we have the safety of anonymity and distance, whereas at Speaker's Corner you are directly in front of the person you're disagreeing with. So it would be impossible to recreate that experience here.
oh, and those "internet definitions"? c'mon guy... that was other people's experiences
Reread your post, War, there are two definitions on there pal. Also, the personal experiences that you referred to were very similar to mine! So how was I acting like mine was the only one to be had? I specifically said that there was heckling, and gave a rough example of one that I saw.......so how is that being crass when I'm actually agreeing with you?!?!?
I'm not discounting anyone's experiences there, I only spent ONE DAY there. I was inspired by what I saw there, the amount of respect people gave to each other, the exchange of values and beliefs, the emotion...it was amazing. I wished we had something similar to that here, hence my creating of this sub-forum. While I appreciate and understand where your critique is coming from, it doesn't change the fact that this is how I decided to set this up, and it all boils down to, once again, if this is not a place you want to come, then don't come here. I set this up this way based on my experiences HERE, in this forum, where there sometimes is a certain lack of respect that we give each other and I was hoping to avoid some of that by threatening to delete disrespectful posts.
I hope you do participate here though, as this conversation is a perfect of example of how well you can put forth an argument without having to refer to your typical taunts.
