I would be withholding to not say I am a bit upset with the previous version of this thread, but NOT the content. What bothers me is that some parental figure thought they knew better and sent the bad children to bed.

This is not Romper Room. We are NOT children! And whoever did that, don't treat us that way. Don't treat children that way either. Human beings are fully capable of learning to disagree and bicker and still respect and love one another. It is called diversity! It is a very important thing to learn to tolerate and love diversity.

This is supposed to be a therapeutic forum of some kind. Have you never been to a group therapy session? Disagreements, even bitter ones, are part of the process. You stomp on that and you stomp on the person's abiltity to express themselves, learn other's feelings and learn to find resolution. It is a healthy thing.

The truly bad, even wicked things that happen in this world are often the result of intolerance of each other's differences. You learn tolerance by embracing diversity. You don't learn tolerance by denial of difference. You learn tolerance by telling your truth and listening to the truth of others even when it seems different.

I don't know where I am going with this, so I am going to stop now.

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