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Andy, as you are quite aware, the TOS used to prohibit discussion of topics of a religious nature because they tended to provoke hostility and flame wars. The TOS was changed to allow discussion of religious topics that don't provoke hostility and flame wars. If you want to try the waters, Andy, by all means start a thread discussing where in Islam the Koran advocates Muslims beheading hostages on videotape and posting the video on the internet. Lets see how far it gets.H2Andy:i am curious... where does the TOS prohibit religion?
So Andy, out of the (how many is it now, a dozen?) recent threads on whaling, how many of them have not become political? How many of them remained entirely civil discussions without name calling, disdain, or the introduction of posts that you yourself would have pulled when you were a Moderator?H2Andy:so why was this forum (Good Causes, Petitions, and Soliciations) created if not to discuss these things so long as the discussion does not become political?
Thanks Andy, but I've read it. This is the sentence I'm working off of:H2Andy:i'm sorry, but i don't think you understand the role of this forum or the TOS (which does not prohibit religious discussion; please read it)
Like hell.H2Andy:i mean this in the best way possible, but those charged with enforcing TOS should at least know what the TOS says...
don't mean to pick on you personally
Doc Intrepid:You know, Andy, I would have expected a little more professionalism and less stirring the pot from someone in your position. But however you want to sling the smack.
Thanks, Andy, I'm doing it.H2Andy:enforce it properly. it's your job.
Doc Intrepid:This thread remains civil or this thread disappears.
Packhorse:The best way to stop whaling is to take away the reason for them to do it. They do it because some people like to eat it. So then you educate the people who eat it, they stop eating it, the whalers stop selling it and then its not worth them catching whales. Telling the Japanese to stop whaling is like tell the the USA to stop making nuclear weapons
jtoorish:I realize this thread is controversial, and that is does not specifically involve diving, per se. But here in Maine some divers I know were lucky enough to dive with a while that had found itself in one of our coves. The whale made the news and divers and non-divers alike were talking about it. I can tell you, for those divers it was the experience of a lifetime. A few of them actually dove with this whale on their first OW dive...talk about luck!
So, for me anyway, this is a huge part of why we dive.
Jeff