Posted: Jan 20, 2012 1:13 pm
Nora_Leonard wrote:Perhaps if the emphasis was placed on a wish to seek fellowship and engagement rather than confrontation?
I certainly think that should be the tactic and maybe the expression of that sentiment might be 'hippy' enough to put off anyone more inclined to stirring up trouble. I am just concious of the sadly unbreakable and omnipresent law that for every hundred or so well-meaning individuals attempting genuine engagement to reconcile or at least understand and accept a variant perspective, it only takes 1 or 2 asshats who've brought their axe's to grind, on either side, to make the situation go, potentially, horribly wrong.
I suspect that I am being overly anxious but it is best to be prepared. In principal, to be clear, I think it's an excellent idea and one that I would support (although I agree with the earlier poster that it probably makes more sense in the US than the UK).