By Just A Guy
Editors note: Just A Guy is an inmate in a California state prison. His reports appear twice a week.
I believe it to be an imperative that opposing views should be a part of any dialogue. This is especially true in the comments section of my blog. While we, as inmates, are given a very limited voice, we (or I) should not preclude people who believe differently from being a part of the discussions. Were I to do that, I would be just like the mainstream media, the majority of politicians, and a seeming majority of law enforcement that only reports one side of the story — which is almost always assumed by a largely vapid public to be true.
It is alarming, though, that when someone with an opposing view posts his or her comments, they mostly seem to degrade into name calling and derision. Case in point would be bobjacboson, who commented about my blog a few weeks ago and accused me of being psychotic.
When I read comments such as bob’s, I can’t help but wonder if the commenters even read the post before making their thoughts known to the public.
I believe I opened that blog stating that I could not be explicit for fear of retaliation, but bob railed one me for not being explicit. Sigh.
Please read before you comment, bob, then think. But I’m going to give you an example of what I was talking about.