RE: Quite a shame how people respond
May 17, 2013 at 12:01 am
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2013 at 12:06 am by Brian37.)
(May 16, 2013 at 5:32 pm)Arellius Wrote:(April 25, 2013 at 1:50 pm)lordxenu Wrote: Hi guys.
I've been noticing something bad in almost every thread I go into.
The thread starts usually with something a religious person asks about or posts. And what follows is a long thread of ridicule and senseless attacks.
I am noticing more an more threads that never seem to attack the question and the issue at hand. Threads filled with cheap jokes and insults. Posts that are nothing more than a link or a pair of sentences that don't contribute to the debate.
Meanwhile the religious people use those posts to later on claim that they had a "discussion" on an atheist oriented forum and they won the arguments!
"See", they would say; "I posted some of my religious proof and BOOM! Atheists didn't know what to respond".
Come on guys!
You want to comment on a news piece, do so, but with respect to the readers. Maybe write about how morality should not be derived from holy books and how that piece of news contradicted human rights, the teaching of the people who did something...
Atheists are supposed to be the elite of the educated masses. We are supposed to spread knowledge, not ridicule.
Agreed
Alas, that's the internet for you. People are free to say what they want, it's up to you not to get pissed off at a stranger who babbles cuss words all the time. The YouTube comments are the worst though, even more worse than Facebook. This is pretty oké so far I've noticed.
So the medium matters? So if Hitchens comments on the story of Abraham asked by God to kill his own son if Hitchens said " FUCK YOU" meaning no sane parent would do that. Because he said it in a speech or is rich and famous, then that's ok. But when no name people say the same thing, others focus on cuss words rather than the message.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVoloVvsupM
It does piss me off that far to many people get stuck on words when the real offense is what credulous people do when lead by the nose of fascist states and or fascist religions.
People complain about foul language as if it could ever cause the same damage as corrupt blind loyalty to a state or a god. Tyranny is when "don't offend me" is institutionalized.
