Downstrike/blogs

From the page: '"Am I the bad guy? Am I the big horrible person who shattered someone's life with some information? No! This is life. Welcome to life. Everyone goes through it. I've been through horrible stuff, too."

"Like what?" I asked. Sexual abuse, Fortuny said. When Jason was 5, he said, he was molested by his grandfather and three other relatives. Jason's mother later told me, too, that he was molested by his grandfather. The last she heard from Jason was a letter telling her to kill herself. "Jason is a young man in a great deal of emotional pain," she said, crying as she spoke. "Don't be too harsh. He's still my son."'

Been there; done that, when I was little. Does this excuse me to be cruel to others, or does it obligate me to know what it's like, and protect others from cruelty?

Does this excuse a man to be cruel to others, or does obligate him to protect others from cruelty?

From the page: '"Like what?" I asked. Sexual abuse, Fortuny said. When Jason was 5, he said, he was molested by his grandfather and three other relatives. Jason's mother later told me, too, that he was molested by his grandfather. The last she heard from Jason was a letter telling her to kill herself. "Jason is a young man in a great deal of emotional pain," she said, crying as she spoke. "Don't be too harsh. He's still my son."'

This blog goes from the consequences of not saying what you mean, to the consequences of overly-protecting your siblings in 2 posts flat!

From the page: "I'm really not that interesting."

I beg to differ. From your About Me text alone, I learned a whole new line of research about Hypothyroidism, not to mention the furry and purry critters.

Once again, bigotry raises its ugly heads!

From the page: "Their stipulations for submitting a reinclusion request require an admission of guilt on the part of a webmaster who, as I found myself, could be the victim of a third party. Google's policy of obscuring their reasons for de-indexing makes it much harder for honest, but cracker-victimized webmasters to return their sites to a state that is acceptable to Google. In fact, Google's policy is far more burdensome upon honest webmasters than it is upon cheaters -- the cheaters know what they have done that is out of compliance, and the honest webmasters have no such knowledge of where the problem may lie.

So I had to clarify my response to Google's stipulations:

The TalkOrigins Archive has never deliberately violated Google's quality guidelines. Our site has operated since 1995 in the same way, well before the origin of Google, and will continue to provide quality information to our readers even if Google ceases to exist as an entity. We never needed Google's quality guidelines in order to make a quality website, and we would not lower our quality if Google decided to impose guidelines that were injurious to the standards that we have ourselves set and maintained."