Lazyass

Why do you care what strangers think about your bicycle? It's creepy how hypersensitive society is becoming.

noimagination

Human nature. It's a thing. Not falling prey to it requires constant self-awareness, and compensation on a conscious level. Even then, no one is perfect at it.

Hermits have a point.

Clyde1820

For me, actions speak volumes. And if a person's acting decently and courteously, in the action and toward others, I can't possibly know more than he/she about the utility and suitability of that person beyond those actions. Whether it be cycling or digging a trench or helping somebody with a task.

Am all too human, I am, but it's one of the things I try most hard to do: be reasonably tolerant and accepting of others for merely being themselves and acting decently. What they look like, sound like, ride, wear or whatever ... that has zero to do with their quality and character. Never has. Never will. (Thank you Mom and Dad for that lesson. One of many.)

Act like a schmuck, get assumed to be one ... because of your actual actions.
Look/talk/smell a little sketchy but act decently, then get assumed to be decent.

Pretty simple, really.

Phil_gretz

I find 12 grammatical and stylistic errors in the above rant. How many can you name?

Reflector Guy

I think it's quite possible they are both the same person.

Maelochs

Every Popular online forum is successful precisely because of this stupid human behavior. People come to fight, and to join in the fight, and to pretend to be above the fight while attack both sides, and others attack those who pretend to be above the fray .... and then those others accuse them of pretending to be "holier than thou" ......

Everyone has both good and bad nature. Everyone has a lived a life full of pain and pleasure, and most, in order to take their minds off the pain, will hurt others. The brief lessening of pain is perceived as pleasure.

OP, in my understanding, wasn't questioning merely forum but human behavior in general.

Seems to me that we gave up any attempt to teach morality because a lot of people wanted to teach religion, and a lot of others had different ideas of morality, and instead of doing the morally honorable thing and reaching a compromise ... they all just quit. So, for however many generations now (we are going to need to expand the alphabet or something .... ) parents have not taught kids much at all, and kids have taught their kids even less, and now behavior that would have gotten you slapped several decades ago is considered acceptable.

Somewhere after World War II, the world's population went astray or perhaps failed to take the opportunity to step up to a new awareness---globalism, responsibility, mutual dependence---and started fragmenting, with each group become more insular and hostile. Now we are all f****ed.

Oh, yeah .... bicycles. I wouldn't want to derail the thread by not talki9ng about bicycles so .... bicycles.

indyfabz

unterhausen

I don't understand how a forum could possibly control things to the degree that is being suggested in this thread. I have participated on forums where they just banned people whenever the mods didn't like someone's post, but that's no way to run a forum. It really depends on the people that participate, and enough people show up here that aren't capable of self-regulation that it appears to be chaos half of the time. But I think that people could avoid the threads that are obviously going to be controversial and things would be much better for them.

As far as the OP goes, I don't see a lot of hate on here. If you insist on posting 'bent related threads or 'bent evangelism outside of the recumbent forum, you'll get some pushback.

unterhausen

Okay, we finally got one of those people that can't self regulate posting in this thread and I'm going to close it. The OP might want to post any further such threads in the 'bent forum.