MichiganMan -- no need to reply to the likes of Zmaj if he's too much of a douchebag to grasp that someone is doing a socially coorect thing: i.e. acknowledging that you have perhaps offended people and trying to make amends and encourage future positive behavior. I appreciate what you did, even if I don't know anything about you per se.
That is part of the problem with today's world...the focus on *proper* behavior is missing. Look at bullying in schools...TOTALLY blown out of proportion in both is supposed increase (bullshit...no evidence to support this public claim) , it's suppose dimpact (kids commiting suicide....no support for the claim that there is an increase in suicide specifically linked to school bullying - and if there IS an increase in school-aged suicide, I can make the argument that the the increase is because the schools are *teaching* kids that it is socially aceptable to off yourself if you are unhappy....after all, it's not a sin, it's not your fault because the bully made you do it, and then when you are dead, everyone will love you....pretty much *exactly* the recipe to encourage a depressed child to kill himself....taught to them by the schools. A better method would be to tell them to get over it, everyone goes through it, toughen up and stop whining....and then gather a group of friends and beat the shit out of the bully!) The exact opposite lesson is taught in schools.
Anyway...off that tirade...you are expressing humility and sorrow...things we used to honor as a society, and yet some here choose to mock instead or cut you down, because being a tough guy is more important than trying to encourage and help a brother.
Well, many of us here DO support you, MM -- but now that you have outted yourself, you can rest assured that those who have acknowledged it will hold you ass to the fire -- so you had better be serious about your change.
(Spoken from personal experience on these threads! lol)
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