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Originally Posted by cheekyangus
Debating isn’t repeating the same thing for years on end with no taking on board of responses and hoping everyone else falls into line with a World view.
Things in life rarely turn out the way you want or expect, it’s pretty much always a mix of both sides (if there are two, sometimes there are quite a few), including the personally unpalatable.
Some people keep quiet simply because they know it will set someone off and it’s not worth it, it doesn’t mean you are in the majority because you are a vocal lone voice.
Personally I feel the World is full of decent people and it would be a much better place if everyone just accepted that no one person thinks the way everyone else does on every topic and most things you will differ on (in some way, not necessarily entirely), and that you should treat others as you would like to be treated yourself and try to be kind. If you can’t say something productive, new (to you) or it’s going to make someone kick off, then it’s better (mostly) to not respond.
My postings would be much more numerous if I simply responded immediately or responded to everything. Instead I accept the difference of opinion and or eye-roll silently and move on.
Also, it’s the Internet, you don’t know any of us, even the people in your life you are around all the time there will be things you don’t know. You can never really know everything about someone, even if you live with them your entire life, the brain is an individual’s own private domain.
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Dear Internet,
Please post this in every thread on every discussion board or at least as a sticky at the top of each board.
In fact I am tempted to ask if it is an AI response, and if not maybe AI could learn something from Cheeky.
Terrific stuff.