Reply To: Please Change my Mind and Point of View

[admiralandy 1647xp 4]

Hi all,

I’ve been away from OTT/BOW(wow) for a year or two other than an occassional dabble, so I can’t comment on any negative trends that may or may not be emerging here. That are perhaps linked to a new media introduced over the last year or so where there’s been a lack of politeness especially where something as directly interactive as a comms channel.

@panzerkaput Whatever your meaning or intent if your start referencing peoples behavouir in a negative conatation some people will naturally have a response of does he mean me. Especially if been involved in a spat however trivial that at the end of it left, someone was left with a feeling of I shouldn’t have reacted that way. So if you hit someones wrong button on the wrong day and they already feel self conscious and got at and respond emotively. Referencing things with the broad net as your did without a specific frame of reference was almost certain to catch some of that. Then it ends in a downward flame spiral and not the constructive discourse you were maybe looking for.

Also I don’t wish to be overly presumptive or intrusive, but your post title kinda sounds like your looking for positivity and help. For everyone and I don’t mean to sound patronising for everyone who already gets this, just wishing to share my view of things. Which is we all have our perception of things which can be quite different from one another and we can focus on some aspects more than intended and I get a frustrating sense of misunderstanding and some anger as a consequence arising in this topic. Also after 14+ months of a pandemic I think its fair to say everyones mental health is a little fractured, and perhaps we need to consider trying to be a little more delicate when peoples skin is a little fragile and thinner than it may have been 18 months ago for a robust topic such as this.

I’m afraid intolerance is still a fact of life on whichever subject we discuss, the best we can do is try and educate for a more tolerant perspective in society.

Lastly I think we need to have some perspective that given we have been living through one of the most personally challenging year of our lives and not exactly a clear end in sight depending where you live in the world or personal circumstance. It maybe in the example getting referenced of people not being allowed to finish a sentance that those being a bit of a dick, maybe they haven’t spoke to another person for a week or more and got carried away.

 

I apologise for my over use of perspective, there’s probably a better way to express it, but I think I’ve already rambled more than I intended. (Oopsy)

 

Just remember folks there are channels avaiable to help with Mental Health, and consider how the past year has gone for a whole heap of people where it has been a case of lifes too short to be a dick.