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Something else I noticed was that Sakurako-Chan made it look as though he had snagged the posts from a public guild, which I was clear to point out it was not. And I saw his original post, hence the protest from me. He may have toned it down later, but it was too late for me...had already seen it and taken action.

If someone quoted one of my posts without my knowledge, from a private or hidden guild forum, I'd at least expect the quoter to PM me and inform me of it. On the EDP forums and others, I expect people to respond to my posts. But on guilds like these, I'd think our thoughts were kept on our own time. It would seriously offend me if someone stole one of my posts.

I hope you're feeling better about the problem, Shiro crying

Perhaps I am sort of old fashioned, but I see a certain need for civility between members. Not because I want to water down politics, debates, or whatever, but because I think it is common courtesy. I am well aware that when people are passionate about something, tempers can fly but I do not see why certain members feel the need to be rude or spiteful right off the bat.

I generally try not to pull the whole "LIBERALS THIS AND THAT" card, but after certain threads and responses to posts, I can't help but feel some of the more prominent members on Gaia have developed an attitude that is "holier than thou" that allows them to act, basically, like total jackasses to anyone and it bothers me for the reasons I already stated.

I'd like to think I act somewhat like a mature adult, but if I ever, EVER seem to act unreasonably or in the manner I just described, please let me know. I don't want to becme the sort of monster I see more and more on these forums. It almost makes me want to leave.

It only really got to bugging me after school, simply because I was having a normal conversation on various current events with a liberal in school, who I swear to God is one of the most intelligent and genuinely thoughtful person I have spoken to in a long time. In contrast to those I've met on Gaia, well, take a guess.

I realize that such things do not apply only to liberal individuals. Naturally, such attitudes aren't only prevailent in liberals, just that the members I am speaking of are liberal, and it seems to be "rubbing off" (for lack of a better word) on those who were more than willing to keep an open mind.

Ad Hominem by Mr. Jel

"Weapons" is a harsh word...freedom instruments would probably be more PC 3nodding because you know....America is opressing the Middle East with our peace roadmaps and humanitarian aid.

I read an interesting article the other day that had both good and bad information. The guy was talking about how less than a dozen terrorists killed with bullets dipped in pig fat stopped islamic terrorism in 1911, and the KGB stopped islamic terrorism by doing rather disgusting surgical alterations on captured terrorists and depositing the corpses in public. Yet the author said he was't in favor of going about those now, and claims times have changed.

I however think we should arm all our anti-terrorist troops with pig-dipped bullets. Dying in Jihad isn't worth it if you're going to be killed in a way that they believe precludes Allah's glorious virgins and even precludes heaven entirely for the one who dies that way...

They aren't necessarily terrorists unless they're muslims. If I found a bunch of christians in a cave in the middle east I'd just assume they were on the defensive.