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Techni Color, on 19 December 2012 - 11:24 AM, said:
Yet another example of why PK is so easy to mess with. You guys don't let things be: constantly demanding respect and assuming you're taking the moral high ground. No, that would be not taking things to heart on a forum, ignoring the trolls, and laughing at yourself from time to time. Unacam seems to be the only one that gets it that has been regularly posting. With all due respect, please take your personal beefs to PMs instead of tarnishing your reputation even more for trying to justify a misconstrued backlash.
No we can't take the moral high ground. We don't deserve to yet. We have more work to do because we are still in the grey area currently. It's impossible to take the moral high ground while being insulting or responding to trolling. It's honesty and the attempt to be objective that makes me agree with you on this. However just because we are not shining white and pure does not mean that we speak nonsense either. Nor does it mean that it is ok for others to attempt to use this for their own personal gain whilst feigning purity.
Being mature and fair is a difficult game. This is perhaps why so few succeed at it. But many more than succeed will gleefully point out the spots on other people's fingers while imagining their own as spotless when it is no less mottled.
In the atmosphere of this forums currently a few prominent people will make the road that much more difficult for us while attempting to be relatively blameless or the victim. All that I wish is for those people to be acknowledged as is so that the path of those that I see sincerely trying and fighting themselves not be made unduly harder by the selfishness of others. I will equate the mentalities and the leaving of them to rehab, because in my forum years this is indeed about the difficulty for people to change these habits. The posters intentionally taking advantage of them I equate to enablers.
I am mixed up in this by choice, though I could easily leave all this behind. But there are people trying hard with good intentions that I will not abandon. As long as they continue trying and they continue to have good intentions I will do my best to help them even if it means being sullied by the mud slinging and logical fallacies of others. My reputation will recover, pride is no big thing, and I've proven myself time and again in the past. I have no need to prove anything here.
Also remember, the measure of a person and change is not always where they stand but many times how far they have traveled to get there. Those lucky enough to start "pristine" have little to no concept of the difficulties of those struggling to improve. No more than the rich truly understand the plight of the poor.
