I guess I've not been hanging around the right threads...guess I missed the "Attrocities has a caniption (sp?)" post. Must say I'm a bit surprised.
Well, the fault is the lack of a person staring you in the face. It's the same reason people "kill" themselves to get their car in front of yours on the highway (yet would never get in front of you at a movie theatre line). It's the same reason people will cuss a store clerk out over the phone and say stuff they would never say if staring at that same clerk over the counter. It's the nature of the "beast" we call the Internet.
It's one of the reasons I refrain from joining in on the serious discussions here, too. The "my God is real and yours isn't", "my country is better than yours", and the number of other various discussions that someone feels strongly about to post are "places" that have (or should have) "neon warning" lights beside the subject line. (besides, I'm not smart enough for most of the debates...
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Good post, "big A". And humble. Does one good to search one's soul once in a while and get rid of some of the cobwebs that have gathered.