Jakeman, I feel that your responses to what I have said are proving my point. I feel that you are not acknowledging what I have said. Looking at your post above, I see two examples. I clarified my stance on free speech and social awareness, and you disregarded it in a way I personally found rather rude. After first seeing that you felt I was placing restrictions on the right to free speech, I made an effort to clarify myself. Yet I feel you have disregarded if not completely ignored what I have said.
Secondly, your comments in regards to Clickme. I wrote earlier that emotions are not something we can control intellectually. Not in my opinion or experience at least. You make a valid point in that self-awareness allows us to control how we display these emotions, but don't you agree that it no amount of self-awareness can stop an emotional reaction from occurring? My point here being that I feel you have not acknowledged what I have said about emotions. You say that Clickme chooses to be annoyed with you? I'm sorry but I don't feel that emotions are so voluntary.
For what else you've said here, let me address that. Again, maybe interpreting posts as humor first will "Save me hours of grief". But why is the onus on me? Or on any reader? During a face-to-face conversation, is it only the listener's responsibility to interpret the speaker? I don't believe so. And while I have previously stated that tone of voice and body language are lost in text conversations, I feel that the responsibility to fully understand is up to both the listener and the speaker.
This leads into what you said about my first post you saw on this site. If I'm thinking of the same thread then it is the Disposable Army thread
http://www.process-productions.com/f...ad.php?t=12914 is that correct? If so, at the time, I was not aware that the poster (Herr Onymous-Bosch) was joking. Because I couldn't tell that was his intent, and as I've said, I tend to take things seriously first and foremost. Once I knew that he was joking, I retracted my post.
Finally, on a personal note. I again state that I feel you, Jakeman, are disregarding what I have said. And I feel that your responses are unfair because of that. It is not my intent to get into a fight with anyone here. But I feel that your manner of ignoring what I have said, as well as the way you phrase your responses to be confrontational.
That's all I have to say in response to your above post. I'm not going to comment on the history between Clickme and yourself because I do not have enough information to, in my opinion, have a valid stance on the issue.