RE: Forgiveness and understanding are more important than flagging
I got angry because u started harassing other people on my page and u claimed that i was basically a liar because i hadnt had the chance to check out all the things u said and give u an honest reply.. i actually had started a comment back to u saying that u had good material that makes some of my points much harder to argue but i had a vet appt and then dinner with friends and by the time i got back i saw u started claiming i was a liar to my followers and friends cuz i hadnt changed my post or commented back.. that really pissed me off! Say whatever u like to me, i will never flag that, but it was unexceptable to troll other people.
I dont care if u want to continue the discussion or not, we obviously have two different opinions that wont change, but i wanted to understand ur reasoning behind ur thoughs..
i know u are rather new here and i know it was harsh to do what i did but i wanted u to understand that u dont do that type of stuff on steemit.. it is not like fb or any other social media, we are a caring community here. I appologize for going so over the top, im sure some of it has to do with me being stressed out about moving out of the country next week and u happened to get the blunt of it.. i appreciate u commenting on this post and wanting to be civil about things so i will remove all the flags and this post so since we both might have gone a bit over the top, passionate people sometimes do that without realizing it.. i am definitely guilty of that every now and then so i apologize again for that..
Take care
I very much appreciate your considered reply, and the apology that comes with it, which I happily accept.
I actually had a whole post typed out, but I won't use it. However, I do want to say a few things in my defence. This is the post that upset you so much, said to another commenter:
“It's ironic that you cite false facts when the OP wrote one (to be fair he has since withdrawn it), and has cited a false one about knife deaths that still sits there.”
I accept that this post was a little provocative, and I am happy to offer an apology for that. I was impatient because you hadn't replied to me, and this is my bad.
However, I balk at your opinion that it constitutes "harassment" of another user, or that this equates to "trolling". I am new here, but I am not new to internet exchanges, and I am no troll, and I do not harass people.
I didn't call you a liar. I said that you had cited a "false" fact. We don't need to get into it if you don't want to, but that 2015 FBI report does not say that there were more knife deaths than gun deaths as you had claimed. And you must know this by now. This makes it false, doesn't it? This doesn't make you a liar. That report is cited by a lot of pro-gun people, and I understand why you used it to make your point.
I also gave you credit for withdrawing another comment.
I have no wish for this to become an argument now that peace has broken out between us, and I am happy for us to agree to disagree on the wider points of this exchange.
And I am deeply sympathetic towards anyone in a stressful situation. Stress is the mother of all fuckers, and I can understand how easy it is for it to have an affect on one's behaviour. I know this from bitter personal experience.
I am happy to keep talking. Or we can leave it here, in peace (I hope).
I have already spent way more time on this issue than I honestly have time for with my move coming up in one week. I prefer to write about happy experiences not negative ones because i don't like to invite that shit into my life. My bottom line was people should take more responsibility for their actions and not blame it on objects, nothing anyone can say or do will ever make me feel otherwise so we will have to agree to disagree.
I wrote the post rather fast as I was disgusted by all the blame on the guns and apologize for the discrepancies in my article, I really should have done much more due diligence before coming out with a post on such a sensitive subject.
You seem like a good person who truly believes in your cause and I can respect that. I will continue to spend my money to boost the post of yours that I like until I feel the damage I caused on your profile score is back to its normal level. I apologize for going to the extremes I did but I want you to know it wasn't because we disagreed on a matter, it was because you felt the need to drag other steemians into our discussion for absolutely no reason. I don't know what you consider trolling but to me (and the steemit platform) that is out of line.
I will now removed this post because there is no need to put any more negativity out on steemit because of this issue.
I wish you nothing but the best in the future and on steemit. Take care.
I am happy to leave it there too. You have no need to make any further reparations - I don't really understand how all this all works, but I don't think too much damage was done.
We're not going to agree on guns, or on what constitutes trolling, but that's okay, we're grown-ups and are allowed to have our own opinions!
Enjoy Costa Rica. I went then the Christmas before last (Montezuma), and it was the best two weeks of my life.
See you around.
Thanks man.. im pretty excited about it.. hopefully i will find time to do an updated post about it tonight or tomorrow..
I am glad we are just leaving it where it is too.. i think u are a pretty cool cat and hopefully we can just put this all behind us and possibly even become friends (i honestly like when people challenge my beliefs, it teaches me to grow and think outside my normal views)..
Anyhow, I am going to change my guns post knife statistic by tonight, i juat want to replace it with a better one and i am crazy busy today already.. my fiance is pissed i keep jumping on steemit every chance i get to fix this mess, she says we got mire important things to do, but this is important to me to and want to see it thru..
Hope u have a great day.. take care..