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I'm sure DocJohn wouldn't be nearly so quick to offer donations to someone just passing through. Fayerody has enough trust here, people feel we can believe her.

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Has enough trust? How much is enough? What status do we have to reach before we are trusted enough? I am not putting Fayerody down. I am certain that member deserves all the respect we speak of. But many others do also and they are not long time members.

This is just another hierarchy. Our society is structured around hierarchy. Every forum has status labels and points racked up for so many posts. I can post thousands of supportive messages and educated statements and still have deviant intentions. Meanwhile, a new member may be much ore righteous than most of us here but the trust has to be earned. It is sickening, no matter how respectful the "others" have been by "earning" their status. Why should we have to earn any status?

Lori