My last word--until the NEXT word

[anahata56]

First, go here and read. And I suggest you also read the links posted within the content, so that you really are aware of what the TOS actually SAYS--i.e., Live Journal can, indeed, by their own Terms of Service, to which you agreed before you opened your account, make changes to the structure, the accounting and the general Live Journal-ness of

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[trishtrash]

I'm a little confused... the protest is pointless because it will achieve nothing? The apology it has engendered is worth nothing, we have not really been 'listened to'? Asking for change is pointless?

I'm sorry, but I have little time for naysaying - any positive change is worth demonstrating for, and asking that lj listen to and communicate with the people who use it is a request for positive change.

And just for the record - arrogance creates more 'wank' than simple goodhearted protest, which is what I read here.

[anahata56]

I'm not the kind of person who demands, or threatens for, an apology. Because just like any other show of aggression, the act that is the response to that aggression is nothing more than that--something to make the aggression stop.

I question the value--and the sincerity--of an act that is the result of a show of aggression.

I didn't see a whole lot of "simple, goodhearted protest"--I saw a lot of people screaming and hollering and threatening. That is the kind of behavior that leads me to want to protest, because that's not negotiation--that's bullying. And the problem with bullying, as I see it is that not only is it not particularly pleasant to look at, it's not particularly effective.

This is not a war--and yet all I hear about is who "won". And I am also not seeing a particularly clearcut definition of a "win".

Is the apology a "win"? Why?

If I slap someone, and say, "Oops, sorry!" only to turn around and slap them again, of what value is that apology? But that's exactly what happened here, because nothing concrete has been

[trishtrash]

I'm not unfriending you because you and I have differing opinions - I'm unfriending you because you write entries that speak to your 'friends' like they are idiots; the arrogance (which I have seen displayed by you elsewhere, and in your treatment of others) is not something I find at all appealing

[anahata56]

If you can point to one place where I expressed my opinions of any individual in a less than flattering light, I invite you to show me where it is.

And for the record, I don't have the power to "make" anyone look or feel stupid, especially not via the expression of an opinion that I expect no one (or at least very few) to share.

For the last week, I've been subjected to post after post after post about the evils of LJ, and the implication that anyone who does not participate in this strike as some sort of suck-up, or worse, as a collaborator. And while you are not one of the people who have done that, you are the one who took it upon yourself to be offended when I expressed my offense at those people who did.

Why? This doesn't belong to you if you're not one of the people displaying the behaviors. And surely if you took offense at this post, then you would take equal offense at the people who gave rise to it--right? And if arrogant, insulting people offend you, then you would be equally offended by the people who did resort to

[trishtrash]

Once more - then I'm done, and so are we

[anahata56]

Clearly, there is no meeting of the minds here, and that's fine--it is what it is.

But no--nothing that I've written is directed at anyone not demonstrating the behavior. If you think you're included in that, then that's your choice, not a designation I've assigned to you.

In the meantime, I'm glad that you have chosen, for yourself, not to read what offends you. That indicates a willingness to think for yourself and to act on your convictions, and I admire that.

But as you go, know this--I bear no ill will, on a personal level, to anyone based on their opinions or even their expression of them, no matter how offensive I find either. The interesting thing about people (and I do count myself among that throng) is that they are both glorious AND faulty--sometimes simultaneously.

I will never feel negatively about a person as a response to either their opinion or their expression of it--that's not how I roll. If you read this post again, you will see that it criticizes ONLY behaviors--I can't criticize people because that's not my