Scenario; A healthy minded individual offers his/her opinion and input to a crowd who boos them off the stage. The man takes his things, thanks the audience for their time, and leaves.
What he does not do is stay and try to reason with raving lunatics yelling, "fuck you!" and "get the fuck out of here, you jackass!"
The PROBLEM is that Paul, continues to engage with people who clearly do not take him seriously, and think he's an ass.
WHY would he do this unless it was in some way serving him to do so? Paul's passive way of playing victim to the Fornit's board has hooked you, Carmel. Has it ever occurred to you that maybe Paul just likes to argue with folks?
This board is full of bullshit that people have to wade through in order to find value. I don't think much has changed except for more traffic over time. More traffic = more bullshit.
In addition, Paul does flood. Article after article... Day by day by day by day. People have every right (whether productive or not) to express to Paul how they feel and what they think. As you said, "This is an open forum."
Paul has chosen to stay, regardless of the onslaught of insults that have followed him, it is a choice
he is making.
Lastly, the rules of etiquette he broke were technological, not social.
I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul.... No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life -- our desire to go on living -- our dread of coming to an end.
--Thomas Edison, American inventor
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"It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. - Carl Jung
