You're absolutely right Jim.
You and I live in a generation and time that is raised
to sue and take foolish action too often.
--- "Take a wild, friggin guess"
<a_change_of_plans_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> After having read several of the posts regarding
> this, please
> allow me to point something out, and I am not
> ridiculing anyone.
> Let's get that straight first. This is not an
> argument about anyone
> in specific, but rather, a certain practice which
> seems to occur
> frequently in the fandom.
>
> 1)Roleplaying is fun, I'm sure, but there's a time
> and a place for
> such an activity. Personally, I don't RP, and I
> never have. I am
> who I am, and that's all there is to it. If someone
> makes an insult
> directed at me personally, I'm not going to make
> comments about
> getting some imaginary weapons I saw on a video game
> or somesuch. I
> am not going to gather a bunch of other likeminded
> individuals
> together, so we can all march into some imaginary
> enemy location,
> and threaten to shoot them or use fancy ninja swords
> or whatever.
> That's just not realistic, and it will only make the
> "enemy" laugh
> and add more fodder to his list of reasons to hate
> furry stuff.
>
> Likewise, going after someone who wrote an article
> in a wide-
> spread magazine, someone who doesn't even know you
> exist, is
> absolute folly, not to mention possibly illegal
> (based upon your
> method of retribution).
>
> So I'll sum this up to keep it short, though
> unfortunately also
> harsh: Get a firm grip on reality and realize that
> you are not that
> muscle-bound Rambo look-alike in the video game you
> played last
> night. None of us are. We're just regular folks,
> some of whom may
> have certain fetishes deemed "unusual" by the
> majority of society.
> And that's all there is to it.
>
> --JMH, astounded
>
>
>
>
>
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Received on Wed Aug 23 2006 - 09:11:33 CDT