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Originally Posted by dtrainor
A recurring trend throughout your post was making personal assumptions upon my character. I was arguing as devil's advocate regarding the ethics of the issue; most of what I mentioned in my own post was fictitious. I don't even lose things often, I was just putting myself in the position of someone who does. Your comments regarding the "company I keep" were out of line, as now you're assuming what sort of friends I have. Don't worry yourself over such frivolities; someone with a rear end as uptight as yours wouldn't make the list.
I notice you dodged the issue of ethics altogether and expected me to break down my post one reply at a time. The tedium of this exercise exceeds the ambition I have to approach it. My post was to illustrate that karma can not be dictated from the subjective opinions of those already predisposed to favoring one response or another; to simplify: that karma will always look differently from one perspective than it does from another.
Your smarmy introduction to the boards gave me the sort of information I was looking for regarding the company I'd prefer not to keep in the future. I see now I'll never break into this little cult and earn the acceptance of some aging Kindle users who spend time on the boards in between what can only be assumed is a passive approach to parenting; you could have raised your children more efficiently in the time it took you to parrot the sentiments of another almost verbatim. You can avoid having personal judgments like this made about you by showing others the same courtesy; I read somewhere about learning all that in 2nd grade. I guess there are things you didn't learn that year, either.
Not receiving gratification is of course punishment because it proves a fruitless endeavor. Alas, we've more proverbs: no good deed goes unpunished, and playing devil's advocate on these boards for the sake of exposing liars didn't do me any favors either. The fact that you thought I singled you out in my post when, quite frankly, I didn't know you existed until five minutes ago, tells me I must have struck a nerve. I'll let the cult following you've acquired here nurse any wounds that may have ensued as a result, because I can no longer care any less what you think about just about anything.
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Of course I was making assumptions about your character. Isn't that what a post is - your opinion, the sum of which defines your character? When you say that "Most people, when finding something, do not value it as the lost possession of another," I gathered you were speaking of you and the people you know. So yes, I formed an opinion of you and the company you keep. And the fact that you wouldn't even consider doing the right thing unless you received gratification says quite a bit.
As I said previously, I am pleased to not be an aquaintance of yours. And if the fact that I hold other people's valuables as their personal property and not mine to take when they turn their back makes my rear end uptight, then that's fine with me.
You join a board for mobile readers, then use your first post to say that something that doesn't belong to you is okay to keep, and you are surprised that everyone here urges the OP to return someone's lost item? Perhaps you
don't belong in this "cult" (by which I'm sure you meant an incredibly large group of people of all ages from all walks of life and all corners of the earth who come together to intelligently discuss reading in general and ereaders in specific, all while maintaining a sense of neighborly conduct).
How did this become about my parenting? If anything, from my posts you have surely learned that I have raised my son to be a kind and thoughful person who will return things that do not belong to him. And I can assure you that I know from experience that that is exactly who he is.
I never assumed you singled me out, I was simply responding to a post which upset me. You can't expect to make such statements and not receive responses from people who disagree with your opinions.
I can assure you that you have not caused me any wounds, for the opinions of a selfish egomaniac mean nothing to me. I will however, spend my time on other threads of this board where people of intelligence reside.