RE: Nothing supernatural about the western suburbs of Melbourne
November 25, 2012 at 4:30 am
(This post was last modified: November 25, 2012 at 4:35 am by worldslaziestbusker.)
(November 25, 2012 at 4:12 am)Lion IRC Wrote:(November 24, 2012 at 5:54 pm)worldslaziestbusker Wrote: Hello LionIRC
Why do you think this is a good forum?
More freedom of speech. Thats refreshing.
Talk Rational has freedom of speech too, but people stay on topic here more.
The ignore function makes it harder for someone/anyone to complain about ''having to'' put up with...blah blah blah ---> insert favorite reason for wanting someone banned here<---
Freedom of speech is binary. You either have it or you don't. You can't have more freedom of speech in one place than in another, but identifying this category error in your thinking is tangential to the issues you've had at other sites. You had a fair go at AFA forums and you chose to chuck it by breaking the rules till you got banned, even goading the moderators to ban you. How does this compare with my treatment at Reasonable Faith Forums, where I was regularly censured for trying to get you to answer a question and was banned without notice or reason. What you think is a good forum and what I think is a good forum are clearly very different.
That you have not yet been banned here for evading questions and passive aggressive sledging suggests either that this forum is a poor match for my needs or that you have changed your posting ways considerably.
Free speech allows you to say what you like, but the price of free speech is dealing with the consequences of saying what you like. In my experience you are good at the first part but have trouble with the second part.
Ignoring something is a form of failure. Ignoring a problem doesn't deal with it or make it go away. Dealing with it or making it go away deals with it or makes it go away. People just ignoring a problem is the exact opposite of the reason I turn up on social justice forums trying to promote a change in the degree to which religions interfere in my life. Ignore is a coward's solution. Have the gumption to engage with or the guts to distance yourself from the people you disagree vehemently with.
