Why should credit card victims do all the cyberbegging? I too have something I really, really want:
- If you intelligently oppose war with Iraq: Would you please send a civil e-mail to some pro-war blogger.
- If you intelligently support war with Iraq: Would you please send a civil e-mail to some anti-war blogger.
In either case, I am cyberbegging you to point out in a civil way that you would like that blog to work toward convincing you its POV is right–but not by accusing you of moronic villainy. Promise that you, in your turn, will give them credit for being decent, intelligent people–although they disagree with what you believe so strongly.
On both sides of the Bush-and-Iraq divide, intelligent and kind people are being pushed further apart by angry folks full of abuse, devoid of ideas. We all have to live together on this little planet, and hating each other helps nobody.
Disclosure: War on Iraq does not meet my private criterion for war, which is, “Are the government’s goals so vital, and is warfare so clearly the only path to these goals, that I would willingly give my own life to this effort?”
But my POV is irrelevant to my cyberbegging goal. Won’t you help? Please tell me if you did.