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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8325821" data-attributes="member: 87792">Ernie is one person who, unprovoked, launched an attack on an entire group of people. And then pointedly didn't apologise to them. If you're worried about compassion to as many as possible how about starting with the group Ernie tried to bully for being what they are rather than reserving your compassion for Ernie?When a bully is hitting another kid with a toy the first thing you do is take either the toy or the bully away from the situation. And the first person you worry about is the person or people doing the attacking.In his apology that pointedly missed his victims out Ernie demonstrated that he wasn't going to stop hitting people with his toys. Now the deletion of his twitter account has indicated that he's stopped hitting people with his toys compassion can be useful. Before that compassion from strangers (as opposed to people he knows and we hope respects) while he continued to try to bully others is best described as enabling a bully.Part of this is admittedly because Twitter is a hell-site that doesn't have anything resembling decent moderation. But while he continued unrepentant &quot;compassionate to as many as possible&quot; meant starting with the people he was trying to bully.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 8325821, member: 87792"] Ernie is one person who, unprovoked, launched an attack on an entire group of people. And then pointedly didn't apologise to them. If you're worried about compassion to as many as possible how about starting with the group Ernie tried to bully for being what they are rather than reserving your compassion for Ernie? When a bully is hitting another kid with a toy the first thing you do is take either the toy or the bully away from the situation. And the first person you worry about is the person or people doing the attacking. In his apology that pointedly missed his victims out Ernie demonstrated that he wasn't going to stop hitting people with his toys. Now the deletion of his twitter account has indicated that he's stopped hitting people with his toys compassion can be useful. Before that compassion from strangers (as opposed to people he knows and we hope respects) while he continued to try to bully others is best described as enabling a bully. Part of this is admittedly because Twitter is a hell-site that doesn't have anything resembling decent moderation. But while he continued unrepentant "compassionate to as many as possible" meant starting with the people he was trying to bully. [/QUOTE]

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