Originally posted by Diogenes Of Pumpkintown:
And this post is any different from what you claim to be addressing?
A lot of the problems of ill feeling on some of the serious discussion threads have been caused by people jumping in late, scolding everyone else after the fact when the people originally involved have already made up and moved on.
So no one can in in after the the alleaged discussion has started that then?
The solution is simple. If you don't like the serious discussions, than stay out of the threads. I agree with Sazerac that a separate forum for such things is a good idea, like at MH or some other forums, to better enable those people who claim they hate such stuff but somehow don't seem to be able to resist it from getting offended. That way they would have no excuse whatsoever for being bothered by such things. Perhaps a sign such as "Here be Dragons, Enter at Own Risk" could be posted at the entrance to such a forum 
NO one was said they do like actule discussions but HAVE been saying that what going on is not a discussion or a debate but I one side trying to shove there opinions down the others sides throat or performing personal attacks against them!
That said, it is certainly true that a lot of tempers have flared recently over the current international crisis. I have certainly been guilty of losing my cool and engaging in far less than admirable conduct lately.
However, I question what seems to be a popular feeling here that such is altogether a bad sign.
On the contrary, I think it says a lot for many of the people here, including the very ones I most often and most strongly disagree with, that they care so much about these truly grave circumstances. Whether I agree with them or not, I admire their passion for what they believe in and their realization that, yes, these ARE incredibly serious times, which call for soul searching and passionate debate.
Yes debating, not what been going on. A debate has evdience to prove something and counter evdience from the other side, they do not contain attacks on a persons system beliefs.
I would be very alarmed for the fate of the human race if this forum were currently like what some of you seem to be saying it should be, just a place where all we talked about were trivial aspects of life and told jokes. Hell, if tempers and passions weren't flaring over the late events, what would that show except that we were emotionally dead to the world and practically souless creatures who didn't give a damn about anything important? Now your just putting word into people mouths, no one said they want this or inplied it in anyway!!!!!
Yes, there is a down side to passion. But the alternative is worse.
What is their no passion in jokes or talking about peoples lives, in showing your friends that you care about them???? (See how annoying it is for someone to put words in your mouth!)
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