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Originally Posted by jenskwan  I would ask that you please read my words thoroughly before you post a response. I have never suggested that the member not share their story. I am simply asking everyone to play nice. I just want to still believe that we live in a world inhabited by decent human beings. Human beings who should be given the benefit of the doubt and given second chances since everybody makes mistakes.
I’m sorry that I mixed up civility with judges and juries and I don’t think that these forums are a court of law, they were just analogies.
If you are the one who is promoting respect amongst community members I would like to let you know that I have never felt so intimidated by anyone in my life. I have tried to remain neutral and not accuse anyone but every time I open my mouth you have a snide comeback for it. You are using all-caps which in itself appears threatening.
I am sorry for ever starting any conversations here, this environment is just demeaning and I do not need this type of negativity in my life. |
Jennifer - if I intimidated you, then for that I apologize as that was not my intention. But when you keep coming back and coming back, claiming that people here are being uncivilized for merely
sharing their side of the story, it does need to be addressed. You say you haven't accused anyone of anything, and yet you have quite a lot. And you've made allll of these assumptions after being here for 2 seconds and reading a few threads, in particular one which happens to affect you personally. If you actually take a larger look around, you'll see that there are tons of wonderful, kind, supportive, intelligent, passionate, and friendly people here...but it does feel like you
only want to see what you want to see, and that is that a friend/colleague of yours is being discussed and not positively.
And if you'd look around some more at what we see here with unethical quantity-based breeding practices, you'd then also
possibly understand just *why* there is so much warranted passion regarding the breeding practices that your friend seems to support. This is of *great* concern to those of us who love this breed, love animals, fight for better breeding, and fight for less euthanized animals (which is 3-4 million a year, btw).
Please understand that this entire issue with your friend is much more complex than just the issue at hand...it goes much deeper and wider than that in its implications.