EverStryke

Originally Posted by ximmy

apparently, i just need to get over it...

I just need to get over being a decent human being....

A few days ago, i am on a team where a member says "statement indicating he is a pedophile?"

so i say, "umm, ok, can we please not talk about this? This is inappropriate, and as i have children, i am uncomfortable with this line of conversation."

and i get "you need to lighten up. I don't care about your children, and i don't even know where you live, so i couldn't possibly come to your house and do things to your children"

so i go, "ok, yes, i see your point, but what you are talking about is unsettling, and i politely request that you stop talking about it, not to mention the fact that what you are talking about is illegal and against the rules for cox."

and he says "having sexual desire for children is not illegal, only acting on it is"

and i say "ok, but i would really appreciate it if you didn't discuss this kind of atrocities against children in this forum."

and he proceeds to tell me how anyone who says "think about the children" makes his head explode, and how anyone who takes offense at comments made by people on the internet are idiots.

This conversation went on for way longer than it should have, but i was really trying to understand how he thought it was ok to make those kind of comments and he was only too happy to continue to tell me i was an *****.

I took screen shots of the convo, but didn't keep them, since most of the other people on the team kept telling me to "lighten up".


Fast forward a bit...


So, i am in a costume contest in atlas tonight, and the people are talking about some video game where they get lots of points for killing children. Again, i politely request that they stop talking about killing children, since i am a parent and the subject matter is disturbing to me. Again i get that i need to "lighten up", and that somehow, in their minds, slaughtering children is fine as long as it is in a video game. Like, somehow, as long as it is "virtual", it is totally ok to slaughter and maim and **** children. I don't get this.

But, apparently, i am in the minority.

Apparently, it is perfectly fine to do horrible, depraved, tortuous things to people, since this is a "game", and if anyone takes offense at the discussion of said atrocities, they just need to "lighten up".

Seriously.

I don't understand how most people can agree that it is not ok to commit hate crimes against alternative sexualities and persons of color and the like, but somehow, it is perfectly ok to talk about atrocities towards children. I, for one, do not find it acceptable chatter to talk about
violence against any person for reasons of race, creed, gender, sexuality, age, religion, or any of the other 'isms......but i find it particularly atrocious when hate and filth is directed towards the sweet, innocent babies. But, apparently, i just need to "get over it", since people are allowed to say whatever they want when on the interwebs.

I totally expect this thread to get axed, since it is inflammatory and contains some bad words, but i would really like to get some feedback on it before it does.

Am i being too sensitive? Do i really and truly need to "get over it"?

Please respond.

portions in italics were edited to remove details inappropriate for the coh forums -mod08

Originally Posted by fallenz

Sounds like a prestige farm to me, where everyone is forced to farm you prestige till you get tired and close all the bases again.

Originally Posted by Fredon_Nod

Hi LS