Don White wrote:


There you go...wrong *again*.
I'm a law & order man. I just don't buy that 'merican notion of different
laws for different folks.
Treat everyone the same (this applies to you also) and I would be a model
citizen here.
Can you rise up to the challenge?

Very confusing.

First, one complains about net-copping and then complains that every
single flame and OT troll by every person isn't commented upon. From a
"net-cop" standpoint, isn't your position a lot like the guy who gets
charged for bank robbery and then pleads, "You need to let me go
because there are some bank robbers who are still at large!" ?

Here's another 'merican notion for you: Self pride and determination.
Are you actually a person of some sort, with individual and personal
standards, or will your standard of behavior always be defined by the
worst available example in a group?

If it's your purpose here to be a name-calling and disruptive presence,
something of an anonymous schoolyard bully, then look around for your
'nads and when you've got a sufficient quantity assembled stand up and
say, "Screw you all. Being an internet junior badass is my preferred
role in life and I hope to get better at it. Screw anybody who would
even dare remark on my behavior." Announcing that you will be a "model
citizen" if and when everybody else behaves properly is a statement
that you don't have any personal behavior standards- that you will not
only "follow the herd" but that you will additionally follow the worst
available example in the herd and use that person's activities to
excuse your own.

The 'merican notion of self pride and determination puts Don in charge
of Don. It gives him an enormous spectrum of choices, but it holds Don
and only Don accountable for the good, the bad, the productive, or the
destructive choices Don makes. It isn't the fault of somebody
else for behaving just as badly, nor is it the fault of some third
party for failing to chastise all the disruptive and OT flamers
endlessly and exactly equally. The upside of the 'merican notion of
self pride and determination is that you can always make a new and
better choice. Any time.