mexican flag, on top Options

[Divergent Realit...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nal3RP9il3A

a video of what happened when a mexican flag was flown above an american flag.

[TetraGrammaton C...]

I think that our procedural inadequacies are not what, so diligently, drive away new members.

I think it is often our fervent, over-emotional and often ignorant discussions in which people take sides particularly quickly, often by way of insult rather than counter-argument.

There is an apparent and immediate disregard for any opinion but that of the speaker. There is no attempt to empathize and then explain logically how your opinions deviate, but instead a childish spewing of the speaker's own inadequacies projected on to that of his/her proposed opponent.

These tend to lead to preconceived agree/disagree notions with the same poster in other threads. This appears to snowball out of control and self-justify the lack of argument. That is, we begin to disagree with the person, rather than the idea.

There is no easy way to mod this. This is the responsibility of the individual poster (to enter a state of intelligent, informed discussion in which their will be disagreements, but those disagreements will be handled with respect).

People on this board have very little respect for each other. Similarly to the flag law, it should be the only rule and measure we follow. Every rule we make and do not make, every statement we make or withhold, should be done out of respect for ourselves and one another.