Quote from: georgem on March 04, 2016, 05:24:04 PM

Quote from: rhinomonkey on March 04, 2016, 05:23:01 PM

Quote from: minerpage on March 04, 2016, 05:09:02 PM

Quote from: rhinomonkey on March 04, 2016, 04:42:46 PM

We merely have a supporter who dons a flag appropriated by ISIS in his Avatar.

It is more than that. This guy openly supports a group that destroys, murders and terrorizes. Would you like to live next door to that? Would you like to invest in something this supporter invests in? Would you build a school or anything else with these people? Would you like to be associated with any of that? I don't think so.

I made a point earlier that in a globalized society you can be guilty of any number of associations. You use the U.S. dollar I'm assuming... you know who else uses the U.S. dollar? Terrorists use the U.S. dollar. You are supporting the system as much as anyone else, don't you see? Or at least I can make that association.

To go even more abstractly, you share a common language with him... and terrorists.. I could make the association that you are related in some way!

You ask specifically if I like to be associated with these things, but association is something that can be done by an outsider or as a personal decision.

I can associate myself with those things, but I choose not to.

You can associate me with a plethora of things, but I have no control over what you associate me with, even if I don't LIKE it.

So what I'm getting at here, is that many associations can be made, but many are also out of my control, because other people can the ones making the associations

Separately, you own a computer... you have invested in something a terrorist has also invested in... you literally cannot separate yourself from these things. You're in the thick of it.

P.S. people don't make good building blocks... though I think they were used in The Great Wall of China

This guy is deep!
Where have you been all this time!

I agree, good points... doesn't take away from the fact that it doesn't feel right to have a terror supporter in our community. It doesn't feel right to have to have these conversations. Most ideologies stand for something, these people are out to destroy without reason or distinction. I thought we stand for building something new, explore the unexplored. This takes the fun pretty much out of it.