05-20-2021, 01:55 PM
(05-20-2021, 01:47 PM)Earendil Wrote: Exactly. This is how I feel as well. It's not all rainbows and candy canes, but it's not all doom and gloom either. I prefer to be somewhere in the middle.
Hey, I think different opinions are great. Not everyone thinks alike and that's a good thing. I just don't get people putting their opinions on a public message board and then clutching at their pearls when others respond in disagreement or take offense to them.
Some people's emotions and psyche are more fragile than others. Those more fragile people should think twice about publicly sharing their thoughts on a forum where people might, do to the openess of a forum, publicly disagree or judge them for it.
This isn't a Bengals "safe place" where every idea shared gets validated with a trophy or pat on the head accompanied by an "Atta boy". I hold out hope that if someone says something stupid and gets told it's stupid and why that maybe... just maybe they will stop being stupid. Or, at the very least, stop publicly alerting others as to their stupidity by saying stupid things.
At some point in life, someone's got to let them know they aren't saying smart things. If not... how would they ever know to work on their thought process. It's cruel to NOT tell someone "Hey, buddy, stop thinking and saying dumb stuff out loud. Think that idea through a little further or do some research before speaking".
