(05-04-2018, 05:22 PM)pirkster Wrote:

(05-04-2018, 05:06 PM)DragonFury Wrote: So you see the value in interacting with people with different personalities and background yet want to support a system that purposely seeks to exclude interaction with people with different background and therefor different personalities? And this does not seem completely contradictory to you?

All segregation in any form does is create an "us" versus "them", whether it's with gender, skin color, education, nationality or any other reason anyone can of think. once you start down that path it opens people up to consider their group superior to the others. It even happens on this very board with something as inconsequential as sports, how often have you heard the phrase "yeah, [poster] is a tacks/Lions/clots fan, but they're one of the better ones"? Because we file these people in these groups we start judging by whatever label and attitude we assign to that group instead of judging for the human being they are.

Joining a VOLUNTARY club has ZERO bearing on your interaction and inclusion of others in your life.

What is it with you numbskulls that want to force people to act and think only the way you approve of?

Segregation is natural.  Would you prefer grocery stores to randomly place each item in the store for sale?  Perhaps websites shouldn't use categories to aid in navigation.

Newsflash.... people aren't labels, they are individuals.  Individuals should be free to associate and form segregated groups on their own free will should they choose.

Otherwise, you should be vehemently opposed to Title 9 in sports.  None of your flawed mental gymnastics could possibly justify that.

Because the importance of mens/womens sports and mens/womens organizations are no different at all.

These three things are exactly right. Who we choose to spend our free time with is up to us, or it should be. I don't spend my time with people I have no common interests with because what would be the point? It's like wasting time watching a sport you don't enjoy. What's the point? Why did any of us join this message board? Because we have the Jaguars in common and/or we enjoy football in general. Within this MB there are a lot of differences that, to me anyway, make it much more interesting and help broaden my view on different subjects whether I agree with them or not. 

We are forced to do a lot of stuff in life we don't care to because that's just the way it is, so why the heck be forced to do stuff we don't want If we have a choice? And why take that choice away from others?  

There will never not be segregation as long as people have different interests, different cultures, different opinions and ideas, different skin color, etc. The surfers will hang with the sufers, the nerds with the nerds, the popular kids with the popular kids.

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