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A likely hopeless call for civility and sanity
By O. Deus

I know this will all likely fall on deaf ears but here's a wild idea. Instead of screaming, pounding chests and throwing various filth at each other...how about an actual discussion?

Talkbacks are often bad but this episode's seems to be particularly awfull. I know namecalling is ever so much fun and people have gotten used to it particularly on the boards here where abuse is the point. But none of this accomplishes anything and maybe something could be gained if the anti and pro-enterprise fanctions actually debated and discussed the points instead of shrieking and gibbering.

The feedback has often gotten so nasty that I don't bother looking or reading at it anymore. It's not because I have a thin skin but because I know it'll consist of the same dozen people yelling the same things ad nauseum who will dominate it preventing any kind of discussion from happening. And that's sad because there are people here who have contributed and are capable of contributing to the subject.

I'm not even pushing civility as an ethical virtue but just the simple fact that with people shouting back and forth 'Enterprise Sux' and 'Enterprise Rulz' and 'You Suck' and 'No You Suck' the result is just a pointless mess. If you want to challenge points it's one thing, but hysterical dementia gets you and everyone else nowhere.

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