I didn't have the most mature of reactions, I will be the first to admit this, but I was not the first person in the history of the world to get thrown out of a bar for kicking a douchebag ex in the testicles and I most certainly will not be the last. Having everyone come down on me like I've just killed a puppy is, shall we say, overkill. For those of you who think that I am in the wrong, we will have to respectfully agree to disagree and leave it with that, because any amount of public shaming will not work. It's been proven, repeatedly, that I am immune to it. If Forge had come to me, IN PERSON, and discussed how what I had said and done had offended him, then I would have given it all due respect.
Coming on the journal system, disrespectfully comparing me to a bigot when definition of one is, and I quote: "a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion." and in no way involves "words spoken in the heat of the moment which have no actual bearing on said individuals ACTUAL beliefs" while acting all high and mighty when he HIMSELF has not exercised the best judgment in tense or emotional situations caused me to treat his statements with the respect they deserved.
Does this answer satisfy everyone? Or do we feel the need to drag all the other bad things I've done in the light and wave a shame finger at me? Because the only people I've ever owed apologies to have already been apologized to. I am not perfect. I have never claimed to be, nor do I expect others to be. How can we be forgiving and tolerant of people who hate and fear us, and yet turn around and become wholly intolerant for those of us who screw up?
(Did everyone seriously have judgment tea with their breakfast this morning? Seriously, the hell?)
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I didn't have the most mature of reactions, I will be the first to admit this, but I was not the first person in the history of the world to get thrown out of a bar for kicking a douchebag ex in the testicles and I most certainly will not be the last. Having everyone come down on me like I've just killed a puppy is, shall we say, overkill. For those of you who think that I am in the wrong, we will have to respectfully agree to disagree and leave it with that, because any amount of public shaming will not work. It's been proven, repeatedly, that I am immune to it. If Forge had come to me, IN PERSON, and discussed how what I had said and done had offended him, then I would have given it all due respect.
Coming on the journal system, disrespectfully comparing me to a bigot when definition of one is, and I quote: "a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion." and in no way involves "words spoken in the heat of the moment which have no actual bearing on said individuals ACTUAL beliefs" while acting all high and mighty when he HIMSELF has not exercised the best judgment in tense or emotional situations caused me to treat his statements with the respect they deserved.
Does this answer satisfy everyone? Or do we feel the need to drag all the other bad things I've done in the light and wave a shame finger at me? Because the only people I've ever owed apologies to have already been apologized to. I am not perfect. I have never claimed to be, nor do I expect others to be. How can we be forgiving and tolerant of people who hate and fear us, and yet turn around and become wholly intolerant for those of us who screw up?
(Did everyone seriously have judgment tea with their breakfast this morning? Seriously, the hell?)