07-01-2016, 03:46 PM
I hear the ideas are "attacked" on PW far more than people line and agree, and I think the to be a mature human & self regulate idea is great, but there are some, like PM2 and their tirade on the "Hawaiian "Politics" & The Rebuttal “ thread in the politics section that is ridiculous. To me it is so insulting as to verge on violence and I believe it would be so easy to stop it. There are, after all, only 3 or 4 people that make an endless habit out of saying hateful ugly things about those that they don't agree with and if someone with the authority to do something would stand up to them and ask them to give it up they would.
To me our collective silence about this, and the admins lack of action about this, is enabling it. Is condoning it. And that is just dumb. If any of our kids acted as such they'd be scolded, period. Sent to their room without dinner, the cell phone, the keys to the car, whatever, taken away, grounded for fricking ever. If any of our coworkers acted as such they'd be out of a job. If any member of our community association acted like that they'd be uninvited from our meetings. If any of us acted like this in any store on the island we'd be asked to leave and never come back. If we acted like this in congested traffic we’d be shot. There is a reason we expect respect in society. Not so we all can conform to a single idea but to protect those with differing opinions so that they may coexist in peace. And here there are a few that spend a part of every single day intentionally disturbing that peace.
I think your philosophy is great Rob, and it fosters a freer environment, but there is a limit that if gone beyond it just breaks and all you are left with is a school yard full of bullies. By your response to PM2 you are saying go ahead, pick on folks, sure be disrespectful what the hell I’ll pay the server bills so you can have somewhere to be an a**hole, treat people like crap, what the hell it's how people in Puna roll.. right? So be it!
To me our collective silence about this, and the admins lack of action about this, is enabling it. Is condoning it. And that is just dumb. If any of our kids acted as such they'd be scolded, period. Sent to their room without dinner, the cell phone, the keys to the car, whatever, taken away, grounded for fricking ever. If any of our coworkers acted as such they'd be out of a job. If any member of our community association acted like that they'd be uninvited from our meetings. If any of us acted like this in any store on the island we'd be asked to leave and never come back. If we acted like this in congested traffic we’d be shot. There is a reason we expect respect in society. Not so we all can conform to a single idea but to protect those with differing opinions so that they may coexist in peace. And here there are a few that spend a part of every single day intentionally disturbing that peace.
I think your philosophy is great Rob, and it fosters a freer environment, but there is a limit that if gone beyond it just breaks and all you are left with is a school yard full of bullies. By your response to PM2 you are saying go ahead, pick on folks, sure be disrespectful what the hell I’ll pay the server bills so you can have somewhere to be an a**hole, treat people like crap, what the hell it's how people in Puna roll.. right? So be it!