MadRabbit -> RE: "Do terrible experiences make for terrible people?" Nietzsche (7/3/2007 10:04:04 AM)
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I left this somewhat vague to see how people would take it. Some people got the point, others...well... Lets just say I wanted to see who stick to the point expressed in the few words I wrote and who would draw assumption based on things I didnt say. The main behavior I was talking about was the off the wall conclusions people make in regards to posts that provide really ZERO information to support the opinions. In the end, they are really subjective to the poster's own prejudiced opinion based on whatever handful of bad experiences they have had in the past. Personally, no one has said any bad things about me or really tryed to label me as a "Bad Dom" (Exlcuding one who mistook a point I was trying to make in another thread as a personal attack). However, when I reflect back on, some past relationships that happened in a very low time in my life, when I did and said things I regret, the ex significant other could very well make a good post on this website that would label me as the lowest of the low. I can reflect back on some past relationships of my own where the bad experience was caused by the other partner. I find my own perspectives and opinions of them twisted and turned by hurt fealing and subjected by emotion. I could easily portray them in a bad light as a terrible person based on the experiences they put me threw, but if I keep an objective stance, I know thats not true. If one were to reflect back on all the threads regarding negative experiences with Dominants, one could easily take the perspective that the only true, good Dominants are the ones who post on Collarme.com and everyone else is the lowest of the low considering the conclusions that are constantly drawn. Is it so ridicoulous to think that perhaps some of these negative experiences are caused by simply average joes with their own set of imperfections? Is it so ludicrious to think that the entire world isnt populated by predators and cheaters and low lifes who are just waiting to snatch up all the horrible submissives....and that perhaps this perspection that we constantly take here is simply twisted by bad experiences of imperfect men (and women) who have made some horrible mistakes? Personally, reading all the responses to threads, it amazes me how anyone has a decent relationship or even survives in the bad world filled with cheaters, predators, posers, and "horny vanilla dudes" that seems to exist beyond the realm of this message board. And God forbid, when someone posts here with a questionable experience, that people actually try to give some form of objective advice instead of resorting to the worst possible scenario as the absolute. I'd be happy just to see sentence structures that simply went "Its possible that...", "Based on the information...", "Its my opinion..." Its not my style to make posts like this nor am I intending to climb up on a moral high horse. I've had my own bad behaviors on these forums in the past. However, watching an OP have their perspective changed on a subject by people supplieing advice that only takes into account the worst case scenario brings a little sigh from me... So let me change the topic of discussion... I've done plenty of shitty things in my time. I used to be quite a heavy drinker and I did some horrible things to people I care about before I went sober. I've gotten horny in the past and had sexual encounters that I regretted because the experience left the other person hurt. Now...do these terrible experiences that I have brought to other people in the past automatically make me a terrible person?
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