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Originally Posted by s_forbes

It's probably a waste of words, but I encourage y'all to try and view things from other peoples perspectives before you post. Being inflammatory and insisting your view is the only correct one just makes this forum look silly. This is the kind of atmosphere that completely turned me off of posting here when I was in high school.

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

Why do people keep saying that these anon accounts are trolling? All I see is people with different views then yourself. I am not saying I agree with either side. But by calling someone disagreeing with a troll you are invalidating your argument. There are 2 sides to every debate. In order to get anywhere both sides have to mutually respect each other.

I agree with these posts. I'm not taking a side either, but I agree that being inflammatory and insisting one view is the correct one makes this thread and parts of CD look silly as heck. The only way we are going to progress on issues such as this, and other societal issues, is being open of others perspectives and respectfully disagreeing with what was mentioned. I understand the inflammatory responses because it's obvious many people have direct personal feelings attached to this issue and that causes the disagreeing to come out with an ego which I understand, but it's an issue because this thread largely fell apart because of that. The only way we are going to make a change is by opening up people to speak their opinions and have a mutual debate. This thread discourages many members from participating/expressing their views on crucial societal issues. And honestly if they don't voice that then the issues get prolonged further.