It was a bit of a mess, but I think that killing it was unnecessary. It would have found a natural resolution within a short while.

What I would have preferred was some attempt to redirect the conversation, or to point out the errors of what was going on. In other words, turn it into a learning process.

It is better to learn to have and settle differences by diplomacy than by simply destroying the opposition. Some of us here (myself at least, at age 50!) have a lot to learn about adult social skills. We would be better served in a therapeutic community to have a chance to make a mess, then clean it up. We could use some help with this. Simply gagging the participants and forbidding further dialog is not productive. The quiet is false. The underlying tensions still exist.

Or, am I misunderstanding the whole thing?

Or is this forum really just a feel-good place where one goes for "huggies"? I don't object, it is your place, but if that is all there is, I am have no further interest in staying.

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