Originally posted by: Nik
I understand and agree that you've seen more than I have in life, but as much as I give credit to you for your experience, I'd like the same respect for what I've experienced.
You have not experenced as much. Also you don't seem to realize that what you have experience at this point should not have set who you are in stone (which it has to some degree with you). You are not Stupid but you are ignorant. You are one of thoose guys who claims to know everything and you also think you have the ways of the world all figured out. You don't, I don't, val hasn't either. There is something to learned from every walk of life and you ignore others that you have any issues at all with. You are missing out, trust me.
don't *need* to talk down to others. I have quite the open mind and I've decided, through experience, that I still morally/ethically/whatever disapprove of certain lifestyles and other things. Being open minded doesn't mean that you approve of everything.
Believe me there is a big difference between tolerance and approval, and you could learn some of the first one there. I disagree with many different life styles however You understand that sometimes what you do is not who you are. When you start classing people and lump them into groups to excludfe trust me you are missing out. I disagree with the homosexual lifestlye however I believe it to be wrong, however I have gay friends and Because what they do is not who they are then we are fine. Val has a job and that job while it's a part oif her it is not the entire picture.
I spent a goodly number of years ignoring flaws in those I loved and all it got me was grief. Ignoring flaws is never a good thing. It's not my intention to attack others for their flaws just to attack them. If you can't take some constructive criticism and benefit from it, that's your problem, not mine. Oh noes, someone insulted me? What am I going to do with it? If I can actually learn from that criticism, awesome. If it's not constructive, I just brush it off or have some fun with it by throwing it right back in a big ol' flame war. Like I said, if you can't take constructive criticism and do something benefitial with it, that's not my problem.
First off you missed the point. Unless you have NO FLAWS you need a good reason to attack. Now is the bussiness Val is operating effecting you in any way? If not leave her alone. It is not about how they feel about your words however you should think about that before typing. You don't give much constructive critisism here. You do however attack those who you feel are morally below you. It make you look petty and small.
Well, according to you, attacking others for their beliefs isn't necessary and yet she's done so in this thread. She's not so perfect as you would paint her to be, even by your standards.
Yet my complaint was with you. She attacked on the defensive.
I'm not sure how you can say that because I do think as much about her profession and I'm still quite happy with myself.
Not sure what you mean here.
Until you go on a date with me, you'll never know how much or how little I respect them. So either pony up or stop making judgement calls that you have no possible room to make. How does telling a prostitute that she needs to get out of prostitution going to feed my ego, Mr. Man? Hmm?
You seem to tell everyone what they shoudl do when in reality it only helps you. People do thing that make them happy and you seem to revile in making sure that we all know what a GREAT MORAL person you are. If yoiu are not doing that to feed your ego please tell me why uyou are