Quittintime: Invitation: Your BT/Tavern questions answered

There is very good reason I stepped up to say what I did.

You call my doing so, bullshit.

You said I should not say such things. I should just treat people like adults. People will self-regulate.

Well, I say THAT is bullshit.

The result of treating people like adults and expecting them to self-regulate, is what caused this whole mess in the first place.

It has been consistantly and constantly proven that people do NOT self-regulate. People have consistantly and constantly acted like children whether they are treated like adults or not.

Actually I should qualify that. It is not intended to be a sweeping statement. Those who do act like adults are very much in the majority. But those who act like children are a very vocal and very destructive minority. And unfortunately, just as their behaviour affects everyone, the necessity to regulate their behaviour also affects everyone.

When everyone start consistantly and constantly acting like adults, and self-regulating... Then I will no longer feel the need to step in at the beginning of such threads as this one, and remind people that if they cross the line, they are out of here.

Fact is, most here DO self-regulate. It's the few who chafe under any authority whatsoever, the few who think they have some sort of innate human right to act any way, and to say anything they damn well please... who make it bad for everyone else.

And it is those few, who make it necessary for me to say what should not need to be said.

Bottom line, you want me to treat you like an adult, then you give me as much history, and more... of people ACTING like an adult, under any and all circumstances.... as I have been given, of people acting like children no matter how they are treated.

That said... You chafe, because you resent being told to act like an adult.

Yet, anyone who has not been acting childish... has also not been offended at my need to step in and remind people to keep it civil.

You see how that works ? As adults, they understand that I am not lecturing them, I am not pointing the finger at them. I am not flouting authority.

They understand that I am simply reminding those who DO act like children, that childish behaviour will not be tolerated in this thread.

If you don't act like a child, then the admonition doesn't apply to you. What difference then, whether I say it or not ?

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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. ~Samuel Johnson

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