By Jerry Kolber
This past week I responded to a discussion on the web, I tried to mindfully take both sides of the argument and really open up a dialogue to what could be the reasons for something like this happening. In a matter of hours I received several responses, few were mindful and took the time to make an even keel discussion, but most of them were just very one sided and basically in one to two sentences said, “I was wrong” in capital letters, or berating me as a person. It got to the points that whenever the site had a new comment, I started to get into a panic, and I didn’t even want to read it. I felt that these were severe arguments that off line, there would be no way that I would be involved in a discussion of that angry, I don’t know how I could... More...
