Re: How has it come to this?

Posted by NCWayne on May 21, 2011 at 12:12:07 from (166.82.187.163):

In Reply to: How has it come to this? posted by K-Mo on May 21, 2011 at 05:19:17:

I agree with the comment but these boards are just like everyday life in the real world. By that I mean there are all kinds of people on here and to get through the day you have to learn to live with all of them and not let it get under your skin.

The problem with the world nowdays is that everything is supposed to be so anteseptic and unfortunately that thought process is being taught to our kids also. By that I mean their taught that this or that is wrong and shouldn't be happening. Take bullying for instance. Instead of teaching the kids that there are always going to be bullies in this world and how to deal with them and not let anything that is said or done get under their skin, they just tell them it's wrong and to tell an adult and let it go at that. They are not taught how to laugh at themselves and shrug off anything that has been said, they are not taught how to counter comments made and let the bully know that what they are doing isn't all right. Basically they are not taught how to stand up for themselves, but rather are taught to run ask for help from someone else. Typically that does nothing but upset the bully and open up the person to even more attacks as running away proves what the bully thought in the beginning that the person they were picking on is easy prey.

Funny thing is that as the kids are growing up that flawed way of thinking is getting brought more and more into the common, everyday way of thinking in the adult world also. The problem with that is it all leads to a generation of people that are all too scared to stand up for themselves, too afraid to say antyhing because it might offend someone. Like I said in the beginning, the worlld is made up of all kinds of people, some more abrasive than others. The only easy path through it is to learn to live with them. Part of that is accepting the fact that they are who they are and not being afraid to stand up to them, call them out, and if the situation warrants be be just as abrasive right back to them if your the one attacked because running off and crying to 'Mommy" to 'poof' the bad man and make him go away doesn't accomplish anything.

In recent history on this board is the post I made last night about the cause of a problem often being the simple thing you overlook. As usual BOB decided to make a smart a$$ed comment to my post. I didn't get mean but countered his comment and explained the gist of the comment he had made was in fact the whole idea behind my post, he just hadn't understood it. In turn I made a somewhat smart a$$ed comment at my own expense as I know I do tend to get wordy at times....((((but that's just me and I accept me for who I am just as everyone that knows me does.)))) I don't know what happened but this morning I see that that part of the post, and I assume probably others I didn't see, is gone. My question is why delete something like that? I understand the moderators have a right to censor things as this is their board but unless someone was cursing, or being profane, why delete a comment made to ME unless I was offended and asked for it to be deleted??? Personally I understand life is not an antiseptic enviromnent and as a result I've learned to deal with all types of people on my own, I don't need another 'adult' to do it for me. Typically I find that when someone starts bullying if you counter them and let them know your not easy prey they eventually get the idea and back off, and this holds true even more if the counter is done publically. By deleting things like BOB's comments and the replies to him, all it does is further encourage the him, or anyone else that does the same thing on here, to keep going because they never get publically 'called out' on what they are doing and when they do it just gets everything poofed. In reality that does nothing but give the 'bully' way more power than they deserve because now they knows all they have to do is make a comment that someone else won't like, about something they don't like, and by doing that they can get things deleted pretty much at will. Explain to me how that fixes anything???

Ok, I've put in my two cents for what they are worth, now lets see how long it takes for my comments to go poof...........

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