Padriag
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Things like this, which seem to be becoming more and more commonplace really give me pause. What was done was wrong on many levels. Its a case of intolerance and maliciousness, perhaps criminal behavior, and certainly socially destructive behavior. My first reaction when I read this was to seriously consider pulling my own ad here at CM down. Why? Well, we know that CM has advertisers on its front page using fake ads. I've posted about that in the past. The ads use pictures of unknown women and claims they are from your home town, clearly they are not. I can't help but wonder if these women know their pictures are being used? If not (and I suspect they don't), then its just as wrong as what this Jason character did, not as malicious, but just as wrong. And that makes CM wrong for supporting it by using the ads. Given that little thought, I'm left wondering if I should have an ad here at all, how safe am I or anyone else here? How safe are any of us replying to any ads here and what guarantees of that do we have from CM? I don't have any answers to my own questions, and that gives me a lot to think about and worry about. But then that's one of the far reaching problems of this kind of thing, all personals sites suffer because it raises issues of trust and privacy for anyone online. We end up asking ourselves, how safe are any of us, and can we trust the person in that ad at all? Something I don't really care for. Some have said those men deserved it for responding a stupid ad. I didn't read the original ad, but to me how stupid it was is immaterial because it won't be long before someone does this with a very reasonable and legitimate looking ad (assuming someone hasn't already or isn't doing so now). How do I know any of you are who you claim, or you know that I am? And when we feel it necessary to be that paranoid, how can anything good possibly come of it?
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Padriag A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel so that it may be very kind - Edmund Spencer
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