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To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.

I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.

I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.

I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.

I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.

Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.

Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.

-SoulRiser

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Rebelnerd Wrote:i just don't think thats true. look at the world today, we've got so much war, murder, and death over stupid little things

Peace is possible but hard to attain. We may never attain it.

Rebelnerd Wrote:deep inside there's still those primitive agression instincts.

That's what I said. We have aggressive urges but we don't have to go around killing each other.

Rebelnerd Wrote:evil isn't "ignorance," its the expression of a set of values different from your own

Unless you consider all sets of values equal, then it is ignorance. I think my set of values is correct and others wrong. They don't follow mine and so are ignorant because they don't know well enough to do so. That doesn't mean that any set of values is the absolute truth but that people consider their values to be the correct ones.

Quote:what do you think will happen when he gets up, angrier than ever?

He's not going to get up. He's probably going to be unconscious, or at least dazed, and lieing on the ground.

Rebelnerd Wrote:is to get rid of them.

Getting rid of them doesn't mean we have to kill them. Put them in jail or rehabilitate them.

Happy Camper Wrote:But when it comes to punishment just for the sake of punishment (that bastard is sick, make his life miserable!) then it's not doing anyone justice. It's just trading crime for crime.

Exactly.

10-02-2006 06:56 AM

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Pacifism - Guest - 09-30-2006, 01:33 PM

RE: Pacifism - SH☮TGUNHEⒶRT - 01-30-2012, 05:20 AM

RE: Pacifism - 1312 - 01-30-2012, 05:33 AM

RE: Pacifism - Efs - 01-30-2012, 01:52 PM

RE: Pacifism - gore goroth - 01-30-2012, 02:00 PM

RE: Pacifism - 1312 - 01-30-2012, 11:17 PM

RE: Pacifism - Wingless - 02-07-2012, 01:20 PM

RE: Pacifism - Kirby - 05-28-2012, 04:23 AM

RE: Pacifism - HeartofShadows - 05-28-2012, 04:52 AM

RE: Pacifism - John Tuttle - 11-18-2013, 12:51 PM

Pacifism - brainiac3397 - 11-18-2013, 03:23 PM

RE: Pacifism - Heil_Kaiba8921 - 11-18-2013, 10:54 PM

RE: Pacifism - brainiac3397 - 11-19-2013, 02:34 AM

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