As an individual, I have no particular strength of feeling or line of thought regarding various issues that many individuals and groups that exist of all kinds whether religious, political, cultural or any other, thus I am easy going and little might offend me personally.
There are however many individuals or groups of said believers or thinkers in all areas of human activity that do have very strong beliefs and often deeply routed in their own lives from birth.
As an individual trying to be understanding of others then I have to try at least to be just that. Given that I must accept that in many instances personally I could not ever and am not really able to appreciate in fact how very offensive in some instances things that may seem and may be thought of by myself and possibly others as simply not in any way shape or form offensive at all.
In reality that is not the case there are many things that are not the slightest bit offensive to me, that may well be severely offensive to others and affect the very heart of their lifestyle and being and that I simply cannot appreciate their feelings. No doubt that is indeed the case.
I am quite well aware that personally I have a lot of failings and that I am often not tolerant of others when I should be, simply because I am not aware that I am being offensive or intolerant in some way that I simply do not see myself in day to day life. When its pointed out to me I can often see that indeed I am behaving badly when looked at from externally by others around me.
Its often difficult to see others point of view or accept one is being offensive when its not even in your own self to actually be able to self recognise it, leave alone do anything to change personally ones approach, thinking or attitude towards others and their way of life behaviour or thinking. Ones one failings are often the hardest thing to accept or come to terms with particularly if change is needed when it tends to infringe on our own person in one way or another.
Still Tolerance and Understanding of others is an enviable aim even if we don't quite sometimes have a full appreciation of others and what is acceptable to them in terms of behaviour.
From a Moderators point of view which is a just a little different perhaps as personal consideration and thoughts of any kind must be put aside, then at the end of the day at these forums, civilised behaviour and if that cant be managed then ultimately order shall prevail whatever the individual circumstances of any disagreement as to what is and what is not acceptable.
To that end we must all try to be tolerant and get along together but someone has to manage these forums and thats down to the moderators rightly or wrongly, like it or not, to strike a sensible and balanced decision making process whilst accommodating the concerns of all members wherever possible in a free and civilised environment where they can go about their day to day business here with enjoyment and without interferance to that from others or Moderators if at all possible.
At the end of the day TGC, their best interests, the products and the overall and long term condition of the forums come first.
