It’s how there can be a thermonuclear explosion of rage in one thread, and then the same people can be perfectly civil in another one, right next to it.
I found out the rarity of this when I just now got kicked off a discussion group… apparently I was bad for calling a pompous ass on his ill-supported views, and even more bad for sticking up for myself when his compadres started in on me.
Seem I have a character flaw; when three different people start harping on me for being a fascist because I want proper arguments and not misunderstood aforisms – well, it turns out that under those circumstances I start writing arguments cast in plutonium. They didn’t like that one bit. EDIT: Don’t worry, it was in my native Danish… I know that language well.
But then, ok, it would’ve been pretty futile to stay there, seeing as how that would’ve been a sort of insurgency that I can’t really justify. I just didn’t realize just how badly out of sync the respective views of good conduct were.
So, I’m just venting a bit, now. Hope you don’t mind.
But hey, this can be another Rants’R’Us thread, like that one Jaqui did a year ago 😉