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TiredHorse
Enlightened
- Nov 1, 2018
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If it is forum law that members encouraging a member to die will be banned, shouldn't pro-life missionaries proselytizing for members to live be similarly banned? At least questioned as to their motives? This is a place where people can explore their choices without judgement or pressure, a pro-choice forum, and being insidiously bullied to live can be as damaging as being aggresively bullied to die.
I am reluctant to speak for the forum as a whole, but I will go out on a limb and hazard that vacuous plattitudes and shallow clichés delivered even by the most well-meaning missionary are not just profoundly offensive to those of us who have been flogged with them for far too long IRL, sometimes even triggering, but I daresay they are potentially counterproductive.
I treasure this forum as a place safe from the bullying of those who would like the vicarious thrill of seeing us die, but it has also been a place safe from those who would claw at us with their shallow, ignorant pleas for us to convert to their ideology of irrelevant optimism, and I fear recent events may bring the missionaries flooding in.
This is not a place for evangelism. We don't come here to influence or be influenced; we come here for reliable information, for honest community, for the genuine compassion of fellow travellers on the darkest of all paths. Could there not be safeguards developed to ban those deemed guilty of proselytizing, just as there are safeguards against those guilty of using the forum for stalking or exploitation, for making sales, or for harassment?
I am reluctant to speak for the forum as a whole, but I will go out on a limb and hazard that vacuous plattitudes and shallow clichés delivered even by the most well-meaning missionary are not just profoundly offensive to those of us who have been flogged with them for far too long IRL, sometimes even triggering, but I daresay they are potentially counterproductive.
I treasure this forum as a place safe from the bullying of those who would like the vicarious thrill of seeing us die, but it has also been a place safe from those who would claw at us with their shallow, ignorant pleas for us to convert to their ideology of irrelevant optimism, and I fear recent events may bring the missionaries flooding in.
This is not a place for evangelism. We don't come here to influence or be influenced; we come here for reliable information, for honest community, for the genuine compassion of fellow travellers on the darkest of all paths. Could there not be safeguards developed to ban those deemed guilty of proselytizing, just as there are safeguards against those guilty of using the forum for stalking or exploitation, for making sales, or for harassment?