Why on earth do we bother?

Dangerous Man

I mean us, here on after hours - why do we bother with so many threads that have train wreck written all over them from the moment go. I just had a look in the wives and mothers / catholic church / child raping thread and just thought 'well this is just going to turn into absolute lunacy - no point,' and left quickly.

Yet, so many people have already jumped on board in there and are already screaming at each other. Indeed, there are so many of these pointless, doomed threads on after hours that I can't help but wonder 'why?' Maybe it's the philosopher in me.

Are people on here just hyper-argumentative or what? You bastards.

Diapason

Beats workin'.

red menace

Its the knee jerk reaction forum.
Who doesn't like a bit of high horsedness and moral outrage?

mackg

It's a lot more entertaining this way!

stupidusername

Thought the same thing about that thread.my views would be met with outrage no doubt. We bother because it's entertaining in one way or another.

ThinkAboutIt

My view on people arguing on the internet is quite possibly that they are the stupidest people on earth. Why bother. Suppose their lives are so sad they have nothing better.

Dangerous Man

Okay - a couple of guys have already mentioned that it's entertaining so I guess there's something in that - but, personally speaking, if I'm engaged in a blazing row with someone - I don't find that particularly entertaining. I find it tiresome. Maybe I'm just a bollix.

donalg1

ThinkAboutIt wrote: »

My view on people arguing on the internet is quite possibly that they are the stupidest people on earth. Why bother. Suppose their lives are so sad they have nothing better.

Whatever you just dont know what your talking about.:P

smash

Dangerous Man wrote: »

I can't help but wonder 'why?'

Until someone actually does blast something with piss, this forum will serve a purpose!

FetchTheGin

Dangerous Man wrote: »

Maybe I'm just a bollix.

That's the first step on the road to recovery DM, kudos.

Seen that thread.. Retarded.

stupidusername

Oh I find it boring after a short time now,too.used to get bothered dont anymore. I mean entertaining because different people get different things from it.

gargleblaster

I agree with Diapason and SUN.

There's also the possibility that the people arguing most vociferously are doing so because they're, oh I dunno, passionate? About the issue?

That can't really explain the arguing about answering or not answering private calls (or any calls for that matter), but issues about sexual abuse of children?

Surely it's occurred to someone that due to the high estimates of how often this happens, that perhaps some people on boards might have personal experience with such crimes? And might therefore take the issue somewhat seriously, and perhaps even take offense at perceived inferences about people involved in these sick and twisted situations.

megaten

Diapason wrote: »

Beats workin'.

This

whubee

.....it has a gerry springer factor to it

Dravokivich

People get an itchy trigger finger when they are online. A lot of the angst you'd see here probably isn't really as agressive as the poster would intend it to be either. But being able to see it and look back on it, is what makes it look ridiculas. Granted, people just seem to lose the ability to articulate when the red mist descends.

Although from what I've seen. It's no different to watching politicians debate, people complain about fickle things to shop attendents / managers or some people who lay claim to some level of importance and want something done for them, how they want it and when they want it.

What you are seeing in After Hours now, isn't too far off from what a lot of people do out there in Irish Soceity.

LeeHoffmann

agree somewhat with gargleblaster. Some opinions are so vile you just feel obligated to oppose them

...and sometimes you just get sucked in.

I don't find it entertaining. It's exhausting. Definitely wiser not to look

Dangerous Man

gargleblaster wrote: »

I agree with Diapason and SUN.

There's also the possibility that the people arguing most vociferously are doing so because they're, oh I dunno, passionate? About the issue?

That can't really explain the arguing about answering or not answering private calls (or any calls for that matter), but issues about sexual abuse of children?

Surely it's occurred to someone that due to the high estimates of how often this happens, that perhaps some people on boards might have personal experience with such crimes? And might therefore take the issue somewhat seriously, and perhaps even take offense at perceived inferences about people involved in these sick and twisted situations.

Makes sense. I'm passionate about some stuff and some things, and would happily debate them but just not in the way some debates go on here.