Mooks didn't 'go off on one'; his post was considered and measured, as his posts tend to be. Again, congrats on patronising him. Seems to me that, finally, one of the people on here who finds this thread unpleasant spoke up with their objections and clearly he has some support. If that is silly then...
I hadn't actually noticed you had written a response beyond the . because of the quote fail.
You appear to be selectively reading my posts, I had raised objections ages ago to the thread direction the thread was going in.
My point about mooks post was that if you're bothered by the existence of something, then life is going to be tough. You can't do much about the existence of something unless you want to eradicate it, and on a forum that is censorship. I can live with the existence of anything, whether I agree to it or not... because I find censorship to be the worse of the two evils.
I thought that my paraphrasing of Voltaire later in the post made that clear... it's not that I disagree with mooks general sentiment about the direction of the thread. But as I'm not going to be censoring the forum it does seem utterly pointless to allow yourself to get worried too much about it.
It's taking things way too seriously to be worried by the existence of something, it's just a thread on a forum on a site on the internet, and I've already suggested that if people are bothered then perhaps having the antithesis thread to highlight how boys might feel about being treated as objects could be one of many things to show your disapproval.
I hate writing posts like this, because it sounds like I give a fuck when actually I don't... because I prefer to just enjoy the forum than get wrapped up in these tedious debates. I should probably just Godwin the thread and bung you on ignore, it's always the easier option.
I hadn't actually noticed you had written a response beyond the . because of the quote fail.
You appear to be selectively reading my posts, I had raised objections ages ago to the thread direction the thread was going in.
My point about mooks post was that if you're bothered by the existence of something, then life is going to be tough. You can't do much about the existence of something unless you want to eradicate it, and on a forum that is censorship. I can live with the existence of anything, whether I agree to it or not... because I find censorship to be the worse of the two evils.
I thought that my paraphrasing of Voltaire later in the post made that clear... it's not that I disagree with mooks general sentiment about the direction of the thread. But as I'm not going to be censoring the forum it does seem utterly pointless to allow yourself to get worried too much about it.
It's taking things way too seriously to be worried by the existence of something, it's just a thread on a forum on a site on the internet, and I've already suggested that if people are bothered then perhaps having the antithesis thread to highlight how boys might feel about being treated as objects could be one of many things to show your disapproval.
I hate writing posts like this, because it sounds like I give a fuck when actually I don't... because I prefer to just enjoy the forum than get wrapped up in these tedious debates. I should probably just Godwin the thread and bung you on ignore, it's always the easier option.