Why bash another country and then . . .
By egfitz62150
@egfitz62150 (645)
United States
May 4, 2007 2:14pm CST
give a negative rating when someone defends that country (which is their own, after all)?? Isn't this site about exchanging ideas? I don't particularly care that my star rating has fallen after I posted responses which attempted to add another point of view to certain discussions which were blatantly anti-American. I wasn't trying to prove anybody wrong, just trying to let them know what the average American has been taught, as opposed to how our government sometimes behaves. I even acknowledged how screwed-up we are sometimes.
Is it just a knee-jerk response from people who feel so oppressed that they can't even listen to another point of view?
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@PsychoDude (2013)
• Netherlands
4 May 07
Rating systems suck, I won't really pay attention to it if I were you. The minority will probably use it for what it is intended for, a bigger part will rate positive on ideas which are like theirs and negative on the opposite whilst most of the people will probably not rate at all to begin with.
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@egfitz62150 (645)
• United States
6 May 07
It just took me by surprise, I guess. Plus it was such a quick effect -- maybe because I don't have a huge number of posts, too. Ah well, easy come, easy go! :-)
@laltu86 (1249)
• India
10 May 07
I wont negetive grade simply because he is defending his country , after all its his duty to do so being a countrymen.
But i will surely negetive grade someone who speaks ill for others country , now who gave him the right to speak bad for a country which he doesnt know , good post ,keep up the good work.
