Disclaimer

As a warning to my grand total of TWO readers, there will be cursing in this blog post, 'cause I'm angry. I'll try to keep it down, but I make no promises.

So, I've just discovered that my school has a blog feature. Not just for individual people (i.e. this blog is mine and no one elses), but... sort of a mass blog feature. So, some guy named John posts a blog about how he would like to start up an organization for students that would like it to be legal to carry concealed firearms on campus. Now, of course, this is only for people that have a permit for that, so it's not like anyone and everyone can start carrying around guns. He asks for opinions.

NEVER a smart idea. I gotta tell you, college students are idiots. Maturity levels are zero.

Some guy that calls himself DK responds. Does he say "I don't think weapons should be allowed on campus"? Of course not. He says (and I quote) "Funny how your respect for life doesn't seem to extend beyond fetuses."

Well, who brought THAT into the conversation? DK proceeds to hijack the blog. I HATE people that do that. See, blogs are the personal soapbox of the person who writes them. When you comment on a blog, you are speaking to the person that wrote it, not to all the people that read it. But when people hijack a blog, they camp out and watch all the comments, replying to every one of them as if it was their own blog. DK was doing this.

He continues on by saying that he doesn't think that guns should be banned, and neither does President Obama.

Nice. I like the subtle use of liberal politics, and the use of the title. Makes it sound like we're supposed to care. Not just Obama, but PRESIDENT Obama.

DK then copies an article in its entirety and posts it in the comments. Pardon me, I say article. This wasn't an article, but an opinion piece. Hardly qualifies as an unbiased source.

John takes every one of DK's so called "points" and calmly responds to each of them with logic, without losing his temper.

DK responds again, saying that John is stupid, because he says he is pro-life, but he owns a fur coat and supports capital punishment. (Remind me some day to bring out my argument for that.)

Really, what is is about the internet that makes people assholes? These are people that would never say this stuff to anyone's face, but they feel that they can type it out because no one will know who they are. This is the same reason why Venice had to ban wearing masks in public. It gave people too much anonymity, and they were acting like idiots. I don't see why internet arguments NEVER stay on topic. I mean, the blog started out as gun control, and DK swoops in and turns it into a personal-insult-fest, using EVERY one of John's political views as ammunition. I mean, I would hope that I'm mature enough to listen to someone's opinion, disagree with it, give reasons as to why I disagree, and admit when I do agree with them. But people are so defined by Left or Right wing, that they figure you have to have the complete and total opposite opinion. Why can't we all be in the freaking center aisle??

Hey look. I only cursed once. Yay me!