Trust: given or earned?

@philokalia said
I do not know what your motives are but you are an adult and should probably try to be a bit more
charitable in your view of others.

Having witnessed the stuff that goes on here, and having endorsed and praised the kind of posters that you have chosen to endorse, how many of the other people here ~ that you think of as adults ~ have you said this to?

@philokalia said
But to not follow the crowd when we are talking about issues of courtesy and treating others the way that they wish to be treated, then that is something else.

I treat people pretty much exactly the way I would like them to treat me. But mostly they don't and instead, they treat me in ways that seem to earn your endorsement.

@neilarini said
What says the bible?

Aren't you supposed to be a Christian?

You would be hard-pressed to find anywhere in the bible where you are advised to go around trusting everyone. Jesus in particular warned against that practice.

You would find that people in authority are the worst ones to trust without first verifying their trustworthiness ... politicians, lawyers, priests and pastors. Even parents have been known to be untrustworthy.

Beware. God gave you a brain, use it.

@philokalia said
All men are created in the image of God, and so I think it would make sense to simply respect everyone.

Even those who are disrespectful should be thought of as respect worthy.

Certainly, you will generally not solve the problem through now disrespecting them.

A man breaks into your home and is about to kill you and your family. What would you do? How would you show respect?

-Removed-

I am not the intellectual equal of other posters?

😀

You seem awfully close to violating some of the rules here to bullying.

Please clarifys. ^^

@rajk999 said
A man breaks into your home and is about to kill you and your family. What would you do? How would you show respect?

I would defend myself but after the events transpired I would not press for an overly strict punishment (unless the circumstances truly merited it), and I would certainly be ready to forgive the fellow.

I am not sure why you would think that anyone in these circumstances would have choose to stop & render some formalized form of respect instead of defending themselves

😆

@philokalia said
You seem awfully close to violating some of the rules here to bullying.

Please clarifys. ^^

Did any of the posting by some of the people - like chaney3, Eladar and Romans1009 - who you endorsed as "great posters" - amount to bullying? Did you call it out? If they were bullying - and if you are opposed to bullying - why did you endorse them?

@fmf said
Did any of the posting by some of the people - like chaney3, Eladar and Romans1009 - who you endorsed as "great posters" - amount to bullying? Did you call it out? If they were bullying - and if you are opposed to bullying - why did you endorse them?

It's not bullying when both parties are being hostile to one another.

It's an exchange of hostilities, more or less.

I confess to cheering on the guys I liked more 😆

Maybe that wasn't entirely appropriate, but I did not anticipate that people would be so salty about it years later 😀

@philokalia said
It's not bullying when both parties are being hostile to one another.

I never bullied Romans1009, or chaney3 or Eladar. Even though they were clearly bullies. Why did you endorse them if you supposedly oppose bullying?

@philokalia said
I confess to cheering on the guys I liked more

But it makes you a complete and utter hypocrite especially when you drone on and on and on about "forum standards".

-Removed-

You have some serious issues: go see a doctor.