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Not only is it not Morbid, but after a while, you become desensitized to it all.Â* You start finding most of the deaths boring, unless they have some grizzy details or involve someone who is physicially attractive.Â* Hideous people who die in car accidents are worth about as much as ice to an eskimo.
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That's a pretty sweeping generalization. Perhaps true for you, but most definitely not true for me. And I won't speak for anyone else, but I'm reasonably confident that I'm not the only one.
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Dude, you have been a registered member for one week.Right...and you have no idea how long I've been lurking. In fact, you know virtually nothing else about me. So I take exception that you would say "you become desensitized to it all" instead of "I've become desensitized to it all." When you say "you," it's as if you're speaking for me. And I'm making it a point to say that you're not.
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Oh, wow.Â* You really don't know how to read passages in context, do you?Â* Do you purposefully disregard the authors intent just for the purpose of causing arguments?Â* Obviously, the point of my entire post was that after reading about numerous car accident deaths and suicides, the initital shock value begins to wear off.Â* Do you think I was trying to speak for everyone? Did you really think I meant, "Every single person who has ever been to MDS will automatically begin to become desensitized at the deaths because I feel that way."Â* I'm sorry if you thought I was speaking for everyone ever.Â* Maybe if you would have been around here long enough, you would have learned the personalities of other posters...so that you could understand their intent better.
Secondly, who cares how long you have been lurking for?Â* That is an unprovable fact.Â* You could say you have been here for 6 months, but in reality, you have been here for one week. The only hard fact that exists is that you have been here for one week, and you are acting like you are some long time regular who can speak from expierence about densensitization of deaths on MDS.Â* In other words, why don't you sit back and learn the way of board and the personalities of its members before you start making arguments over nothing.Â* If you came after me over a benign comment like the one I made, you are going to have a rough time on other threads...especially if you can't take context and personality into account.
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My initial comment was this: "That's a pretty sweeping generalization. Perhaps true for you, but most definitely not true for me. And I won't speak for anyone else, but I'm reasonably confident that I'm not the only one."
If you considered that a personal attack, then maybe you're not as "desensitized" as you claim to be.
Personalities and experience on the board aside, I would have characterized what you said as a sweeping generalization if anyone had posted it.
If you had taken the time to read my other posts -- very easy to access from my profile, BTW -- I hardly think you would think I'm a noob lurker who came to the board to make trouble. Yes, I have given people shit when they've said things that exemplify what gives MDS a bad name, especially among the survivors of the people whose lives and deaths are often ridiculed on these boards. But for the most part I have been respectful and tried to bring something constructive and/or interesting to the conversation.
In this case, the context was you telling a noob that "after a while, you become desensitized to it all. You start finding most of the deaths boring, unless they have some grizzy details or involve someone who is physicially attractive," as if that's universally the case. And I again am raising the argument that it is not universally the case.
And not that I should have to explain myself further, but I've been a journalist for 23 years. I've covered all manner of deaths from natural causes to accidents to drug overdoses to murder to suicide. Part of my current job is to edit the obituaries. One would think I'd be desensitized to it all after all these years, but I'm not.
Therefore I can say with confidence that MDS will never desensitize me; my experience shows me that it's not in my nature. And I sincerely doubt I'm the only person on here who is like that.
Lastly, you are the only person with whom I've had a "rough time" in my week on the board. None of the other long-timers have raised any issues with me. Not only have I avoided flame wars with people who are clearly only on here to antagonize, but I've discouraged others from doing so as well. But I'm not going to shy away from expressing my opinion on here, and if that gets me into "trouble," it's certainly the kind of trouble I can handle.