9/11 coverup?

[gekko]

I gave you my opinion, and asked you not to take it personally or call me a troll, because it is just what I think. It isn't trolling to say what your opinion is on a topic, and if it is, then that's a stupid rule. I even added a disclaimer. Did you ever stop to think that maybe you hurt my feelings whenever you call me a troll just because you don't like my opinion?

First, if you can't understand why your post was insensitive, offensive and illogical, it's not our place to spell that out for you. I don't know a single person who was in that tower. I live thousands of miles away. But I can still understand why suggesting those people deserved to die is not only ridiculous (exactly what did they do to deserve death?), but also extremely inflamatory.

Here's the opinion you can say without causing the same reaction: I can't say I'm surprised it happened. If the US doesn't change its foreign policies, they can expect more attacks of this nature in the future.

Then you have to back that up. What foreign policies? How should they be changed? See, the difference is where the responsability is placed. You placed responsability on the feet of the innocent victims. And just as bad, you offered not the slightest tidbit to back up your opinion. Not even more of your opinion. Just "they deserved it, this is my opinion." That would be me akin to posting that you deserved to have had your cat eaten by a coyote.

Secondly, your disclaimer. This has already been responded to in this thread, so I'll just touch on it briefly. If I put a disclaimer that no one should take my post seriously, and then post racist hate slogans on this forum, how is that any less offensive than it would be without the disclaimer? If you post something as offensive as you did -- as you seem to on a regular basis -- no ammount of disclaimer can or should save you from the responses you receive.

Thirdly, concerning your feelings. Don't you think you might have hurt someone's feelings when you stated that innocent civilians deserved death? How do you know my mother wasn't in the tower? How do you know I didn't lose a loved one, or a close friend? It's my opinion that you're either a troll, or simply too uncarring and ignorant of real life®.

Finally, concerning this forum's 'stupid' rules. Our rules exist for a reason, and we like them. You can't seem to nail down where those rules are. I can see at least one solution to your problem (and no, I'm not suggesting we change the rules).

gekko