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(V)/\><:We just ARE here to express our opinions, and we shouldn't take it personally, but war is a REAL LIFE threat and not part of some make-believe "internet world(tm)".
Where did I say war was make believe? I wasn't even implying that.
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and to a small extent it does matter what someone you have never met says on a forum, trace your world line, you do not know who you are going to come into contact with and there are a lot of young impressionable minds reading these forums, and all others like it, and i do not think that hostile or otherwise mistreatment of the subject of war is appropriate because someday it will fall to the next generation and the next and it will matter what they think
Excellent point, yet to some extent. I wasn't promoting "hostile or otherwise mistreatment of the subject of war". My whole idea was that it isn't neccessary to take anything personally after being called a "son of a bitch" or "aussie bastard" or whatever the hell they have been bickering about. I'm not going to be offensive if someone insults me because this is a make believe "internet world"(tm) and it isn't going to make a difference to flame someone.