To Always Searching

[Illinois Parent]

I just read your post to IAAL. Don't you dare take responsibility! I'm am sick to death that IAAL has been 'pushed' off the boards. Hopefully, he will come back soon, if nothing else than in another incarnation.

YOU did not screw up by asking that the viciousnes be deleted. Actually, I think that your behavior was mature, sensible and responsible. Sad to see that not everyone is living up to the same standard.

I concede that IAAL may have gone a bit too far using a swear word. But, then again, I don't know HIS whole story either. Maybe the accusation that the post hit a sensitive chord in him is correct. Can we not allow each other to be less than perfect?

Most people who post here are very emotional and hyper sensitive due to the events in their lives that lead them here. But I urge everyone to remember that THIS IS CYBERSPACE!!!! THIS IS NOT THE 'REAL' WORLD!

Have we become so PC that an attack, in the this surreal, anonymous environment cannot be ignored? Why respond at all if you don't like what you read? Why take the most impersonal, intangible, inherently anonymous form of communication ever invented with the same immediacy of a face to face conversation?

While IAAL may have been heavy-handed on occasion with his responses, does that justify everyone else's complete lack of manners? I seem to remember a couple of posts that served the purpose of spite alone being aimed at him. I was taught that the only thing worse than a display of bad manners is the pointing out of another's display of bad manners.

My grandmother was right on this score. Ignoring negativity is the fastest way to make it disappear.

And please, before anyone attacks me for daring to attempt to raise a cease-fire flag, please think on this. A vicious retort at this point would serve what purpose? Prove you are right? OK. You are right. Let's just stop this now.